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Ambassadors of culture : the transamerican origins of Latino writing /
This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Translation/transnation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Alone with the terrible hurricane" : the occluded history of transamerican literature ; Geografia nueva : an alternate history of the American world system ; Citizen, ambassador : stations of literary representation ; The transamerican archive : poetry as daily practice ; Vernacular authorship, or the imitator's agency
- The chain of American circumstance : from Niagara to Cuba to Panama ; Meditations on Niagara : transnational pilgrims and the American sublime ; The Cuban star over New York : Heredia's translated nationhood ; Republics in chains : from Bryant's prairies to the Mexican meseta ; Vistas del infierno : the racial dilemma of María del Occidente
- Tasks of the translator : imitative literature, the Catholic South, and the invasion of Mexico ; "A mist of lurid light" : translation practice in the Americas ; Ecos de México : Whittier, Longfellow, and the case against expansion ; Converting Evangeline to Evangelina ; In the vernacular : translation on the border
- The mouth of a new empire : New Orleans in the transamerican print trade ; New Orleans, capital of the (other) nineteenth century ; The fertile crescent : Whitman's immersion in the "Spanish element" ; Reading La patria : Hispanophone print culture and the annexation question ; Songs of exile : the Laúd poets and Quintero's pearls
- The deep roots of our America : two new worlds, and their resistors ; Diplomatic license : Pombo in New York ; Staging gender on the California borderlands ; Brave mundo nuevo : the marketing of transnational Spanish culture ; Most faithful Fidel : Guillermo Prieto's reconstruction travelogue
- Coda : The future's past : Latino ghosts in the U.S. canon.