Title José María Heredia in New York, 1823-1825 : an exiled Cuban poet in the age of revolution, selected letters and verse / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Luciani

Published Albany : State University Press of New York, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Life of José María Heredia -- Heredia and Exile -- Heredia as Travel Writer -- Heredia and Nineteenth-Century Inter-American Literary Relations -- The Translations in This Volume -- Selected Letters, 1823-1825 -- Selected Verse, 1823-1825 -- To Emilia -- The Pleasures of Melancholy -- Atenas y Palmira -- To Washington -- Niágara -- Project -- The Exile's Hymn -- Return to the South -- Immortality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Summary An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803, d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825. This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803, d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia's political exile in the United States from November 1823 to August 1825. Frederick Luciani's introduction offers a complete biographical sketch that discusses the complications of Heredia's life in exile, his conflicted political views, his significance as a travel writer and observer of life in the United States, and his reception by nineteenth-century North American writers and critics. The volume includes thoroughly annotated letters that Heredia wrote to family and friends in Cuba, describing his struggles and adventures living among other young expatriates in New York City-fellow conspirators in a failed plot to overthrow Spanish rule on the island. His travel letters, especially those that describe his trip to the Niagara frontier in 1824 along the Hudson River and the Erie Canal, offer discerning reflections on American landscapes, technological advances, political culture, and social customs. The volume also offers translations of the verse that Heredia composed during his New York exile, in which he gave impassioned voice to Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain, and which reflected the emerging Romantic sensibilities in Spanish-language poetry. With accurate, clear translations, this volume serves as an introduction to a figure who is enshrined in the canon of Latin American literature, but scarcely known to Anglophone readers. Frederick Luciani is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of Literary Self-Fashioning in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263, 265-269) and index Notes Correspondence translated from the Spanish. Poems are facing page translations with Spanish on the versos and English on the rectos Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Heredia, José María, 1803-1839 -- Correspondence Heredia, José María, 1803-1839 -- Translations Heredia, José María, 1803-1839 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York Heredia, José María, 1803-1839 Poets, Cuban -- 19th century -- Correspondence Poets, Cuban -- 19th century -- Translations Caribbean & Latin American. Latin America. HISTORY. 19th Century. United States. Middle Atlantic (DC. State & Local. American. LITERARY CRITICISM. Hispanic American. Homes Poets, Cuban New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Electronic books Personal correspondence Translations Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Luciani, Frederick, editor, translator, writer of introduction Heredia, José María, 1803-1839. Poems. Selections. Heredia, José María, 1803-1839. Works. Selections. English LC no. 2023700863 ISBN 9781438479859 1438479859

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