{"product_id":"ambassadors-of-culture-the-transamerican-origins-of-latino-writing-9780691050973","title":"Ambassadors of Culture  The Transamerican Origins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, this title proposes a major revision of the 19th-century US canon and its historical contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize \"Gruesz's [provides] lucid justification for directing students of nineteenth-century U.S. literature to ponder the efforts that certain North American writers made, in the 1820s and 30s, to foster a hemispheric consciousness and then, in the face of expansionist militarism during and after the 1840s, to mark out oppositional stances based on claims of distinctiveness concerning such things as religion, trade practices and philosophies of life... [A] rich and suggestive undertaking.\"--Barbara Ryan, H-Amstdy \"Gruesz's interesting study of 19th century Spanish language print culture in the US recognizes the contributions made by Latino poets and journalists to both US literary history and the construction of a Latino identity.\"--Choice \"Ambassadors had me revising my American Literature syllabus before I had finished reading the Introduction.\"--Barbara Ryan, H-Net Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE ix  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix  Chapter 1  \"Alone with the Terrible Hurricane\": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature 1  Geografa Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System 7  Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation 13  The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice 20  Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency 25  Chapter 2  The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama 30  Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime 30  The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood 39  Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta 48  Vistas del Infierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente 61  Chapter 3  Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico 71  \"A Mist of Lurid Light\": Translation Practice in the Americas 71  Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion 87  Converting Evangeline to Evangelina 94  In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border 100  Chapter 4  The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade 108  New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century 108  The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the \"Spanish Element\" 121  Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question 136  Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls 145  Chapter 5  The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors 161  Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York 163  Staging Gender on the California Borderlands 176  Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture 186  Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue 196  CODA  The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon 205  NOTES 213  WORKS CITED 255  INDEX 279","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359102107991,"sku":"9780691050973","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691050973.jpg?v=1754123593","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ambassadors-of-culture-the-transamerican-origins-of-latino-writing-9780691050973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}