Laura Lomas

Translating Empire

Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343424
• ISBN-10: 0822343428
• Artikelnr.: 23910476

Autorenporträt

Laura Lomas is Assistant Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Criticar es Amar: Translation and Self-Criticism ix
Introduction: Metropolitan Debts, Imperial Modernity, and Latino Modernism
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1. Latino American Postcolonial Theory from a Space In-Between 41
2. La América with an Accent: North Americans, Spanish-Language Print
Culture, and American Modernities 83
3. The "Evening of Emerson": Martí's Postcolonial Double Consciousness 130
4. Martí's "Mock-Congratulatory Signs": Walt Whitman's Occult Artistry 177
5. Martí's Border Writing: Infiltrative Translation, Late
Nineteenth-Century "Latinness" and the Perils of Pan-Americanism 216
Conclusion. Cross-Pollinating "Dust on Butterfly's Wings": Latina/o Writing
and Culture Beyond and After Martí 278
Notes 285
Bibliography 347
Index 375