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Tampa : impressions of an emigrant / Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte ; translated by Noel M. Smith ; introduction and notes by Noel M. Smith and Andrew T. Huse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gálvez y del Monte, Wenceslao, 1867- author.
- Series:
- New world diasporas.
- Florida scholarship online.
- New world diasporas
- Florida scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Tampa. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cubans--Florida--Tampa.
- Cubans.
- Tampa (Fla.)--Description and travel.
- Tampa (Fla.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Tampa', written by Cuban author Wenceslao Galvez y Delmonte, published in 1897 in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, translated from the Spanish by Noel M. Smith. Galvez was an early diaspora writer in the costumbrismo genre, which emphasized the depiction of everyday manners and customs of a particular social milieu. Gálvez emigrated from Havana in 1896 to escape the Cuban War of Independence and join the Cuban exile community in Tampa. Gálvez was a champion baseball player in the earliest years of Cuban baseball, a lawyer/prosecutor/judge, and journalist/author.
- Contents:
- Biographical and Literary Note / Noel M. Smith
- Historical Introduction / Andrew T. Huse
- Part I. Weyler Is Coming!
- The Dispersal, Passport, The Voyage, Key West
- Arrival
- Part II. Tampa
- Its Inhabitants, An Overview
- Franklin Street
- The First National Bank
- Electric Streetcars
- The City Hall
- The Barroom
- The Police
- The Black Race
- The Fruit Stand
- Coffins
- The Tampa Bay Hotel
- Dr. Rafael Echeverría
- My Flag
- Benito Aranguren
- Ballast Point
- His Majesty the Milkman
- Palmetto
- The Mailman
- The Oxen
- The Emigrants
- A Baptism in Hillsborough
- Part III. Ybor City
- Pachata
- My Valise
- The Mockingbirds
- Bonifacio Byrne
- Suna Echemendía
- La Estrella Solitaria
- The Volunteers
- The Railroad Station
- His Shadow
- Barber Shop
- Liceo Cubano
- The Sanchez Sisters
- Federico de la Torre Club
- An Audition for Lector
- Ramón Rivero
- Ice
- Cherokee Club
- Carolina la patriota
- From the Countryside
- Juan Arnao
- Carbonell's Bookstore
- Carriages
- The Reading
- The Cafe
- Part IV. West Tampa
- Overview
- The River, Bridge, Oysters and Boats
- Martín Herrera
- Cespedes Hall
- Fernando Figueredo
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 29, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5878-3
- 0-8130-6663-8
- OCLC:
- 1184124441
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