Weber scrutinizes popular conceptions of how the United States is embodied, arguing that the quality of queerness is both absent and present in these imaginings. She argues that in the U.S. wooing of Castro's Cuba in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 -- an event that "grafted Castro's hypermasculinity onto the iconic femininity of prerevolutionary Cuba" -- the American body politic was symbolically castrated. This event triggered the current, "post-phallic" era in U.S. foreign policy, one that has critically queered American hegemony.
In tracing the subsequent U.S. interventions in the Caribbean -- its invasion of the Dominican Republic under Johnson, of Grenada under Reagan, and of Panama under Bush, as well as its intervention in Haiti under Clinton -- Weber contends that U.S. policy in the Caribbean consists of a series of strategic displacements of castration anxiety. Since 1959, then, Weber argues that the United States has been "faking it" -- "it" being a straight, masculine, hegemonic identity and the phallic power that comes with such an identity.
Weber locates her disruptions smack in the middle of the "serious business" of governing a superpower. Compact anddroll, lively and accessible, Faking It offers new ways to think about American identity and its public construction.
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Book Description 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xvi,151pp, author's name on endpaper, text clean and binding sound, printed boards, Very Good / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0816632693. Seller Inventory # 231426