Ambassadors of Culture : : The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing / / Kirsten Silva Gruesz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gruesz, Kirsten Silva,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Translation/Transnation ; 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a ma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknwledgments
• 1. "Alone with the Terrible Hurricane": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature
• Geografia Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System
• Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation
• The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice
• Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency
• 2. The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama
• Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime
• The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood
• Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta
• Vistas del /nfierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente
• 3. Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico
• "A Mist of Lurid Light": Translation Practice in the Americas
• Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion
• Converting Evangeline to Evangelina
• In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border
• 4. The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade
• New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century
• The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the "Spanish Element"
• Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question
• Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls
• 5. The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors
• Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York
• Staging Gender on the California Borderlands
• Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture
• Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue
• CODA The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index