Translating empire
Subtitle: José Martí, migrant Latino subjects, and American modernities
By: Laura Lomas.
Series: New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780822343424; 9780822343257
Subjects: Martí, José, -- 1853-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation; Martí, José, -- 1853-1895 -- Political and social views; Martí, José, -- 1853-1895 -- Influence; Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metropolitan debts, imperial modernity, and Latino modernism; title: Latino-American postcolonial theory from a space in-between; title: La América with an Accent: North Americans and Spanish-language print culture; title: The "evening of Emerson" : Martí's postcolonial double consciousness; title: Martí's "mock-congratulatory signs": Walt Whitman's occult artistry; title: Martí's border writing : infiltrative translation, late nineteenth-century "latinness" and the perils of Pan-Americanism; title: Cross-pollinating "dust on butterfly's wings" : Latina/o writing and culture beyond and after Martí.