Translating Empire : José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities /

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By showing how Marti was a migrant Latino writer who wrote on immigration as well as empire, Lomas shows how Marti "translated" for readers across cultures the misguided North American view of itself as head of a hemispheric body it was destined.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lomas, Laura, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Martí, Jose
Martí, Jose, > 1853-1895.
Martí, Jose, > 1853-1895 > Influence.
Martí, Jose, > 1853-1895 > Political and social views.
Martí, Jose, > 1853-1895 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spanish American literature.
Political and social views.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Litterature hispano-americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Metropolitan debts, imperial modernity, and Latino modernism
  • Latino-American postcolonial theory from a space in-between
  • La America with an Accent: North Americans and Spanish-language print culture
  • The "evening of Emerson" : Martí's postcolonial double consciousness
  • Martí's "mock-congratulatory signs": Walt Whitman's occult artistry
  • Martí's border writing : infiltrative translation, late nineteenth-century "latinness" and the perils of Pan-Americanism
  • Cross-pollinating "dust on butterfly's wings" : Latina/o writing and culture beyond and after Martí.

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