Lomas / Pease Translating Empire

Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8941-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lomas, Laura

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Criticar es Amar: Translation and Self-Criticism ix

Introduction: Metropolitan Debts, Imperial Modernity, and Latino Modernism 1

1. Latino American Postcolonial Theory from a Space In-Between 41

2. La América with an Accent: North Americans, Spanish-Language Print Culture, and American Modernities 83

3. The "Evening of Emerson": Martí's Postcolonial Double Consciousness 130

4. Martí's "Mock-Congratulatory Signs": Walt Whitman's Occult Artistry 177

5. Martí's Border Writing: Infiltrative Translation, Late Nineteenth-Century "Latinness" and the Perils of Pan-Americanism 216

Conclusion. Cross-Pollinating "Dust on Butterfly's Wings": Latina/o Writing and Culture Beyond and After Martí 278

Notes 285

Bibliography 347

Index 375

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Lomas is Assistant Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Rutgers University.