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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coronado, Raúl, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. A World Not to Come focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World. The geographic locale that became Texas changed sovereignty four times, from Spanish colony to Mexican republic to Texan republic and finally to a U.S. state. Following the trail of manifestos, correspondence, histories, petitions, and periodicals, Raúl Coronado goes to the writings of Texas Mexicans to explore how they began the slow process of viewing the world as no longer being a received order but a produced order. Through reconfigured publics, they debated how best to remake the social fabric even as they were caught up in a whirlwind of wars, social upheaval, and political transformations. Yet, while imagining a new world, Texas Mexicans were undergoing a transformation from an elite community of "civilizing" conquerors to an embattled, pauperized, racialized group whose voices were annihilated by war. In the end, theirs was a world not to come. Coronado sees in this process of racialization the birth of an emergent Latino culture and literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Note on Translations

Introduction

I. IMAGINING NEW FUTURES

CHAPTER ONE: Anxiously Desiring the Nation

CHAPTER TWO: "Oh! How Much I Could Say!"

II. PURSUING REFORM AND REVOLUTION

CHAPTER THREE: Seeking the Pueblo's Happiness

CHAPTER FOUR: From Reform to Revolution

III. REVOLUTIONIZING THE CATHOLIC PAST

CHAPTER FIVE: Seduced by Papers

CHAPTER SIX: "We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas"

IV. THE ENTRANCE OF LIFE INTO HISTORY

CHAPTER SEVEN: "To the Advocates of Enlightenment and Reason"

CHAPTER EIGHT: "Adhering to the New Order of Things"

CHAPTER NINE: "The Natural Sympathies That Unite All of Our People"

Conclusion

APPENDIX ONE: José Antonio Gutiérrez de Lara, "Americanos"

APPENDIX TWO: José Álvarez de Toledo, Jesús, María, y José

APPENDIX THREE: Governing Junta of Béxar, "We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas"

APPENDIX FOUR: Anonymous, "Remembrance of the Things That Took Place in Béxar in 1813 under the Tyrant Arredondo"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780674073913

0674073916

OCLC:

844939283