Translating empire : José Martí, migrant Latino subjects, and American modernities / Laura Lomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomas, Laura, 1967-

Series:

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martí, José, 1853-1895--Criticism and interpretation.

Martí, José.

Martí, José, 1853-1895--Political and social views.

Martí, José, 1853-1895--Influence.

Martí, José, 1853-1895.

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Political and social views.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Summary:

"In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary Jose Marti and other Latino migrants living in New York City translated North American literary and cultural texts into Spanish. Lomas reads the canonical literature and popular culture of the United States in the Gilded Age through the eyes of Marti and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating Anglo-American culture into a Latino American idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latino Americans."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Metropolitan debts, imperial modernity, and Latino modernism

Latino-American postcolonial theory from a space in-between

La América with an accent : North Americans, Spanish-language print culture, and American modernities

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

Conclusion: Cross-pollinating "dust on butterfly's wings" : Latina/o writing and culture beyond and after Martí.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-374) and index.

Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Winner, 2008

Other Format:

Online version: Lomas, Laura, 1967- Translating empire.

ISBN:

9780822343424

0822343428

9780822343257

0822343258

OCLC:

209334839