Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas - Literature, Translation, and Historiography

This work demonstrates how Latina/os have been integral to US and Latin American literature and history since the nineteenth century.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Latino Continuum


• 1: Félix Varela's Hemispheric Interventions


• 2: Latina/o Translations as Historiography


• 3: Archival Formations and Universal Sentiment


• 4: The Black Lector: Forging a Radical Revolution


• 5: Morua's Continuum: Redeeming the Americas


• Conclusion: The Latinx Return

About the author

Carmen E. Lamas is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research examines nineteenth-century Latino history and literature from a hemispheric perspective. She is a co-founder of the Latino Studies Association, an academic organization that brings together scholars, students, and activists in the study of Latino concerns. Her work has appeared in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Latin American Research Review, Latino Studies, Oxford Bibliographies, The Latino Nineteenth Century and the Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature.

Summary

This work demonstrates how Latina/os have been integral to US and Latin American literature and history since the nineteenth century.

Additional text

Lamas's text recovers several figures who wrote mostly in Spanish and have been understudied or unknown within US Latino studies. That alone provides a great service to the field, and Lamas articulates persuasively how such works, along with their authors ,might enable us to comprehend literary historical formations as that vibrant continuum.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Lamas, Carmen E. Lamas, Carmen E. (Assistant Professor of English a Lamas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2021
• EAN: 9780198871484
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887148-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History; Oxford Studies in American Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Latino, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino