Sociedad imaginada: la Isla de Cuba en el siglo XIX

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  • María del Carmen Barcia Zequeira

Abstract

This is an study of phrases and topics by which was known the Cuba island during the XIX century. Analysis of the origins of phrases such as "la Albión ofAn-ierica". "La Siempre Fiel Isla de Cuba", "La perla de las Antillas", "La llave del Golfo": of systems as slavery, plantations, miscegenation, the idea of death, and the myth of mulatto. It is concluded that travelers, and well-read, even the own inhabitants, generated upon this extremely complex society, a series of ideas, coined images. and spred expressions from subjective and particular forms of envisaging reality.

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