Author Archive for: ‘Myra Mendible’
Sexy Señoritas and other Imperial Fantasies: US Foreign Policy, Domestic Fictions, and the Latina Body
The most succulent item of all/The United Fruit Company Incorporated/reserved to itself . . . the delectable waist of America. (Pablo Neruda) [1] The “delectable waist” of America is more than a geographical border between North and South: it functions as critical sign in the defining metaphors of nation, difference, and sexuality framing US foreign policy rhetoric and cultural politics. While Neruda …
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