U.S. Official Discourse on the Revolutionary Cuba

Abstract

The article aims to analyze representational practices which relied upon a
series of relations that helped to legitimate U.S. foreign policy towards
revolutionary Cuba in the years 1959–1960. Thinking of the U.S.–Cuban
relations in terms of representational practices, the study deals with the
representations of Cuba and explores how they were connected with
certain strategies of political legitimization in the U.S. discourse. This
attitude highlights an aspect of power as a producer of meanings, subject
identities, their relationships and a range of imaginable conduct. For that
matter, the analysis endorses the representational practices used to
depict „the other“ as a basis for conceptualization of the strategies.