| Description |
xxi, 293 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Translation/transnation
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Translation/transnation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index. |
| Contents |
"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 -- 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 infierno : the racial dilemma of María del Occidente -- 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 México : Whittier, Longfellow, and the case against expansion ; Converting Evangeline to Evangelina ; In the vernacular : translation on the border -- 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 exile : the Laúd poets and Quintero's pearls -- 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. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Hispanic American literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
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Hispanic American literature (Spanish) |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Relations -- Latin America.
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United States. |
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Relations. |
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Latin America. |
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Latin America -- Relations -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0691050961 acid-free paper |
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9780691050966 acid-free paper |
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069105097X paperback acid-free paper |
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9780691050973 paperback acid-free paper |
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