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Informationen zum Autor Laura Lomas Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Reveals how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of US imperialism: a critique that prefigures many of the concerns - about empire! race! and postcolonial subjectivity - animating American studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
