Poética de la Nación

Poética de la Nación
Author: Pedro Barreda
Publisher: Society of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
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The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War

The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War
Author: Jaime Javier Rodríguez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0292774575

The literary archive of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth-century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War, Jaime Javier Rodríguez brings the discussion forward to our own moment by charting a new path into the legacies of a military conflict embedded in the cultural cores of both nations. Rodríguez's groundbreaking study moves beyond the terms of Manifest Destiny to ask a fundamental question: How do the war's literary expressions shape contemporary tensions and exchanges among Anglo Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. By probing the war's traumas, anxieties, and consequences with a fresh attention to narrative, Rodríguez shows us the relevance of the U.S.-Mexican War to our own era of demographic and cultural change. Reading across dime novels, frontline battle accounts, Mexican American writings and a wide range of other popular discourse about the war, Rodríguez reveals how historical awareness itself lies at the center of contemporary cultural fears of a Mexican "invasion," and how the displacements caused by the war set key terms for the ways Mexican Americans in subsequent generations would come to understand their own identities. Further, this is also the first major comparative study that analyzes key Mexican war texts and their impact on Mexico's national identity.

Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage

Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage
Author: Antonia Castañeda
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1518505732

The tenth volume in the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, this collection of essays reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the project’s efforts to locate, identify, preserve and disseminate the literary contributions of US Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. Essays by scholars recalling the beginnings of the project cover a wide range of topics: origins, identity, archival research, institutional politics and pedagogy. From recollections about funding to personal reminiscences, the recovery of Jewish Hispanic heritage and the intellectual project of reframing American history and literature, these articles provide a fascinating look at twenty-five years of recovering the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States. An additional nineteen scholarly essays speak to specific efforts to recover an extremely diverse Latino literary heritage. Historians and literary critics who research Spanish, English and Sephardic texts examine a broad array of subjects, including colonialism, historical populations, exile and immigration. This far-reaching book is required reading for those studying US Latino history and literature.

The Classics in South America

The Classics in South America
Author: Germán Campos Muñoz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350170275

This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western – a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.

Trasatlantica 2

Trasatlantica 2
Author: Case Western Reserve University
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1312197242

TRASATLANTICA. Poetry and Scholarship is an academic peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study and promotion of poetry produced and consumed on both sides of the Atlantic, in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Humanities

Humanities
Author: Lawrence Boudon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780292709102

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music

Voces Femeninas de Hispanoamerica

Voces Femeninas de Hispanoamerica
Author: Gloria Bautista
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0822980770

Voces Femeninas de Hispanoamerica presents in one volume a selection of the most representative and outstanding writing by Latin American women writers from the seventeenth century to the present. Designed as a text for third and fourth-year students, the selections, writers' biographies, historical introduction, and appendixes are entirely in Spanish, with notes to help students with difficult words or passages.

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Author: Miguel Arnedo-Gómez
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611487595

The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gómez explores this paradox in Guillén’s pre-Cuban Revolution writings placing them alongside contemporaneous intellectual discourses that feigned adherence to the homogenizing ideology whilst upholding black interests. On the basis of links with these and other 1930s Cuban discourses, Arnedo-Gómez shows Guillén’s work to contain a message of black unity aimed at the black middle classes. Furthermore, against a tendency to seek a single authorial consciousness—be it mulatto or based on a North American construction of blackness—Guillén’s prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.

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