Translating Empire Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities

Name: Translating Empire
Author: Laura Lomas

Auteur: Laura Lomas

Taal: Engels

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

Vergelijk met andere artikelen

Bekijk nu

Auteur: Laura Lomas Donald E. Pease

Engels
Hardcover
9780822343424
02 januari 2009
379 pagina's

Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

Reveals how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of US imperialism: a critique that prefigures many of the concerns - about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity - animating American studies.

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 José Martí 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 Martí 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 Latin Americans.

Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Martí through readings of neglected texts and reinterpretations of his major essays. Against the customary view that emphasizes his strong identification with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, the author demonstrates that over several years, Martí actually distanced himself from Emerson’s ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitman’s expansionist politics. She questions the association of Martí with pan-Americanism, pointing out that in the 1880s, the Cuban journalist warned against foreign geopolitical influence imposed through ostensibly friendly meetings and the promotion of hemispheric peace and “free” trade. Lomas finds Martí undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his self-published translation of Helen Hunt Jackson’s popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino/a Americans as inherently unfit for self-government. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Martí’s late-nineteenth-century radical decolonizing project.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 januari 2009
Aantal pagina's: 379
Illustraties: Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur: Laura Lomas
Tweede Auteur: Donald E. Pease
Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

Overige kenmerken

Editie: illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 703 g

EAN

EAN: 9780822343424

Je vindt dit artikel in

Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Sociologie

Literatuurwetenschap

Sociale theorie

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Land: Verenigde Staten

Reviews

Nog geen reviews

Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews? Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews?

Negatief, positief, neutraal: we zetten een review altijd online. We controleren wel eerst of ’ie voldoet aan onze reviewvoorwaarden en niet nep is. We controleren ook of ’ie is geschreven door iemand die het artikel heeft gekocht via bol.com en zetten dit er dan bij. De controles gebeuren automatisch, al kijken er soms mensen mee. Bol.com betaalt niet voor reviews. Als een reviewer door een andere partij is vergoed, staat dit in de review zelf.