Translating Empire
Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2009
400 pages
978-0-8223-8941-5 (ISBN)
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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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Laura Lomas is Assistant Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Rutgers University.
Content
Preface: Criticar es Amar: Translation and Self-Criticism ix
Introduction: Metropolitan Debts, Imperial Modernity, and Latino Modernism 1
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
Introduction: Metropolitan Debts, Imperial Modernity, and Latino Modernism 1
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
