Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Translation/Transnation
The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Translation/Transnation
ISBN: 978-0-691-05097-3
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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Gruesz proposes a major revision of the nineteenth-century U.S. canon and its historical contexts.Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and building on an innovative interpretation of poetry's cultural role, Ambassadors of Culture brings together scattered writings from the borderlands of California and the Southwest as well as the cosmopolitan exile centers of New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. It reads these productions in light of broader patterns of relations between the U.S. and Latin America, moving from the fraternal rhetoric of the Monroe Doctrine through the expansionist crisis of 1848 to the proto-imperialist 1880s. It shows how ''ambassadors of culture'' such as Whitman, Longfellow, and Bryant propagated ideas about Latin America and Latinos through their translations, travel writings, and poems. In addition to these well-known figures and their counterparts in the work of nation-building in Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America, this book also introduces unremembered women writers and local poets writing in both Spanish and English.In telling the almost forgotten early history of travels and translations between U.S. and Latin American writers, Gruesz shows that Anglo and Latino traditions in the New World were, from the beginning, deeply intertwined and mutually necessary.
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PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
Chapter 1
"Alone with the Terrible Hurricane": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature 1
Geografa Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System 7
Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation 13
The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice 20
Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency 25
Chapter 2
The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama 30
Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime 30
The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood 39
Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta 48
Vistas del Infierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente 61
Chapter 3
Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico 71
"A Mist of Lurid Light": Translation Practice in the Americas 71
Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion 87
Converting Evangeline to Evangelina 94
In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border 100
Chapter 4
The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade 108
New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century 108
The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the "Spanish Element" 121
Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question 136
Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls 145
Chapter 5
The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors 161
Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York 163
Staging Gender on the California Borderlands 176
Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture 186
Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue 196
CODA
The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon 205
NOTES 213
WORKS CITED 255
INDEX 279
