A world not to come : a history of Latino writing and print culture / Raul Coronado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coronado, Raúl, 1972- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.

Hispanic Americans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 555 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Divergent Revolutionary Genealogies 1

The Traumatic Origins of the Modern World 11

A History of Latino Textuality 17

Disenchantment 22

Becoming Latino 28

A Spiral Historical Narrative 30

I Imagining New Futures

1 Anxiously Desiring the Nation: The Skepticism of Scholasticism 37

The Beginning of the End 37

Provincial Education 41

The Scholastic Episteme 46

Skepticism in the Eastern Interior Provinces of New Spain 56

Imagining the Nation 62

2 "Oh! How Much I Could Say!" Imagining "What a Nation Could Do 75

Voyage to the United States 75

Seeing a New Country 81

Admiring the Well-Being of the Nation 85

Struggling to Articulate the Sublime 90

II Pursuing Reform and Revolution

3 Seeking the Pueblo's Happiness: Reform and the Discourse of Political Economy 101

The Need to Reform the Monarchy 101

The Discourse of Political Economy as the Vehicle for Greater Happiness 104

The Shifting Ideologies of Mercantilism to Free-Trade Capitalism 110

The Commercial Interests of Philadelphia's Early Spanish Diplomats 117

Early U.S. Hispanic Publications, the Critique of Mercantilism, and the Common Good 120

Epistemic Shift 137

4 From Reform to Revolution: Print Culture and Expanding Social Imaginaries 139

Communication Networks 139

Initial Ruptures 143

The Demise of the Hispanic Monarchy and the Birth of the Modern World 154

Print Culture and the Eruption of the Public Sphere 159

Reconfiguring Time and Space 175

III Revolutionizing the Catholic Past

5 Seduced by Papers: Revolution (as Reformation) in Spanish Texas 181

Modern Tempests 181

On the Spanish Texas-Louisiana Border 184

Revolution as End of the World 192

Revolution as Seduction 200

From Patriarchal Respect to Reciprocal Love 204

Alone with the Hurricane 211

6 "We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas": The Philosophy and Brute Reality of Independence 213

Reading Revolutionary Broadsheets Aloud 213

The Broadsheets Content 219

Francisco Suárez and the Catholic Corpus Mysticum 222

Revolutionary Catholic Visions of the Modern Political World 229

Indigenous Literacies 239

Catholic Republican Government 242

War and Terror 248

IV The Entrance of Life into History

7 "To the Advocates of Enlightenment and Reason": From Subjects to Citizens 263

From Spanish Defeat to Mexican Independence 263

Writing and the Word of the Sovereign 269

Printing and the Making of Citizens in Postindependence Texas 277

Caring for the Social Body 294

8 "Adhering to the New Order of Things": Newspapers, Publishing, and the Making of a New Social Imaginary 312

Forced Peace 312

Interfacing with Writing and Print Culture 318

The Founding of Spanish-Language Newspapers 324

Producing a New Social Imaginary 330

Reconfigured Publics 337

A New Temporality 342

9 "The Natural Sympathies That Unite All of Our People": Political Journalism and the Struggle against Racism 352

Putting Pen to Political Work 352

Xenophobia and Anti-Mexican Violence 355

Representing Tejano Interests in the 1856 Election 358

Texas and the Gulf of Mexico Network 365

Reconfigured Imagined Communities 369

Racialization and Colonization 377.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

844939283

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.