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Translating empire : Jose Marti, migrant Latino subjects, and American modernities / Laura Lomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lomas, Laura, 1967-
- Series:
- New Americanists.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marti, Jose, 1853-1895--Criticism and interpretation.
- Marti, Jose, 1853-1895--Political and social views.
- Marti, Jose, 1853-1895--Influence.
- Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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" : Marti's postcolonial double consciousness
- Marti's "mock-congratulatory signs": Walt Whitman's occult artistry
- Marti'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 Marti.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. [347]-374) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822343257
- 0822343258
- OCLC:
- 404069893
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