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For more than 200 often turbulent years, People in the usa have dreamed and referred to Cuba and its own relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of attractive images - Cuba as a female, a neighbor, a ripe berry, a child learning to ride a bike. One of the most important historians of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island.