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Author Lomas, Laura, 1967-

Title Translating empire : José Martí, migrant Latino subjects, and American modernities / Laura Lomas
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages)
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Contents Metropolitan debts, imperial modernity, and Latino modernism -- Latino-American postcolonial theory from a space in-between -- La América with an Accent: North Americans and Spanish-language print culture -- The "evening of Emerson" : Martí's postcolonial double consciousness -- Martí's "mock-congratulatory signs": Walt Whitman's occult artistry -- Martí'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 Martí
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-374) and index
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MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Winner, 2008
Subject Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation
Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Political and social views
Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Influence
SUBJECT Martí, José, 1853-1895 fast
Martí, José swd
Martí, José 1853-1895 -- Crítica e interpretación embne
Martí, José 1853-1895 -- Pensamiento político embne
Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation. nli
Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Political and social views. nli
Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Influence. nli
Martí y Pérez, José Julián, 1853-1895. nta
Subject Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views
Spanish American literature
Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 19th century -- Translations into Spanish.
Authors, Latin American.
Intellectuals -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822389415
082238941X