The Latino Nineteenth Century

Published by New York University Press 2016

The Latino Nineteenth Century

Edited by: Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán

Volume 18 in the series America and the Long 19th Century

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479813131.001.0001

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A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century

Written by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates.

The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authors discussed fertile ground for discussion and will discover the depth, diversity, and long-standing presence of Latinos/as and their literature in the United States.

Author information

LazoRodrigo:

Rodrigo Lazo is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate of the Chicano/Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (2005).AlemánJesse:

Jesse Alemán is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches nineteenth-century American and Mexican American literary studies. He is the editor of The Woman in Battle (2003) and co-editor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation (2007).

Reviews

Claudia Milian,author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies:
The nineteenth-centuryin the context of the extraordinary triangle presented here of Latina and Latino writers and intellectuals in the United States, Latin America, and the transatlanticmay come to us in fragments, but what a marvel it is to bring together this dazzling constellation of scholars who highlight the historical dimensions of 'the Latino/a' and speak to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked. Excitement for The Latino Nineteenth Centurywill have no bounds: this is sure to become a treasured volume.

The collections expansion of American literary history is also evident in the inclusion of Central American textualities, which have been overlooked in most fields of study. In sum, the 15 essays Lazo and Aleman bring together offer new frameworks to better understand and examine 19th-century Latina/o hemispheric movements.

MELUS:
The Latino Nineteenth Century builds on the past two decades of Latina/o scholarship that focuses on historicizing the place of Latina/os in the United States. The book thus excavates the history of Latina/os in seemingly unlikely regions such as New England and cities such as Philadelphia. Further, it illuminates the need to examine Spanish language texts rather than relying on works in English. Expanding the corpus of materials in this way also sheds light on the longer literary histories of Latina/o literature rather than relying on periodizations that ground Latina/o literature in the social movements of the mid-twentieth century. As The Latino Nineteenth Century reminds us, Latina/os existed in the United States well before the Chicano Movement. Further, to fully grasp the range of Latina/o experiences in the United States, several essays in this collection point to the necessity of examining US-Latin American relations. An impressive anthology that demonstrates the diversity and vitality of this period, The Latino Nineteenth Century makes necessary interventions into nineteenth-century American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Latin American Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Jesse Alemán Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Historical Latinidades and Archival Encounters Rodrigo Lazo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Errant Latino Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migration’s Intention Kirsten Silva Gruesz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2. Historicizing Nineteenth- Century Latina/o Textuality Raúl Coronado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. On the Borders of Independence Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelphia Emily García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. From Union Officers to Cuban Rebels The Story of the Brothers Cavada and Their American Civil Wars Jesse Alemán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Almost- Latino Literature Approaching Truncated Latinidades Robert McKee Irwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6. Toward a Reading of Nineteenth- Century Latino/a Short Fiction John Alba Cutler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
7. When Archives Collide Recovering Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature José Aranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
8. Feeling Mexican Ruiz de Burton’s Sentimental Railroad Fiction Marissa K. López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
9. Pronouncing Citizenship Juan Nepomuceno Cortina’s War to Be Read Alberto Varon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10. Raimundo Cabrera, the Latin American Archive, and the Latina/o Continuum Carmen E. Lamas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
11. Flirting in Yankeeland Rethinking American Exceptionalism through Argentine Travel Writing Carrie Tirado Bramen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
12. “Hacemos la guerra pacífica” Cuban Nationalism and Politics in Key West, 1870– 1900 Gerald E. Poyo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
13. Citizenship and Illegality in the Global California Gold Rush Juan Poblete Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
14. “El negro es tan capaz como el blanco” José Martí, “Pachín” Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the Politics of Late- Nineteenth- Century Latinidad Laura Lomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
15. Sotero Figueroa Writing Afro- Caribbeans into History in the Late Nineteenth Century Nicolás Kanellos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Response. From Criollo/a to Latino/a: The Latino Nineteenth Century in a Hemispheric Context Ralph Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: November 8, 2016
ISBN: 9781479813131