Author

Publication

1999 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

37,750 words, Guess

Page Count

151 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL378275M
  • ISBN-100816632693
  • OCLC Control Number39732952
  • Library of Congress Control Number98040327
  • LibraryThing1530772
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  • Goodreads4030870

Classifications

  • DDC327.730729
  • LCCF2178.U6 W43 1999

Description

Weber provides an invigorating analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America through the lens of queer theory, one that is certain to spark controversy and debate. She probes popular ideas of how the United States is personified, arguing that a degree of queerness is both absent and present in these perceptions. Weber critically engages the popular image of American culture. Reviewing U.S. military interventions in Latin America from 1959 to 1994, Weber posits that American foreign policy is a set of strategic displacements of castration anxiety. She brilliantly illuminates the cultural anxieties and imperatives that shape foreign policy. Utilizing humor and critical logic, she provides a fascinating perspective on American foreign relations in the Caribbean.

First Sentence

This is the United States as I see it today - a white headless body of indecipherable sex and gender cloaked in the flag and daggered with a queer dildo harnessed to its midsection.

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