Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public Sphere

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public Sphere
Author: Anna Brickhouse
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2004-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139456531

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This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse investigates interactions between US, Latin American and Caribbean literatures. Her many examples and case studies include the Mexican genealogies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the rewriting of Uncle Tom's Cabin by a Haitian dramatist, and a French Caribbean translation of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent linking Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. She argues for a new understanding of this most formative period of literary production in the United States as a 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.

Transamerican Literary Relations and Nineteenth century Public Sphere

Transamerican Literary Relations and Nineteenth century Public Sphere
Author: Anna Brickhouse
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2004
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 1107163188

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This wide-ranging comparative study reassesses the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within its transamerican and multilingual contexts. Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean literatures that shaped this most formative period of literary production in the United States.

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public Sphere

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public Sphere
Author: Associate Professor of English Anna Brickhouse
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 0511231431

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Anna Brickhouse uncovers interactions between United States, Latin American and Caribbean literatures in the nineteenth century.

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth Century American Literature

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Author: Hsuan L. Hsu
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2010-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521197069

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This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History
Author: Maria A. Windell
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780192606846

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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo American women writers also used sentimentalism to construct narratives that reframed or countered the violence dominating the nineteenth-century Americas, including the Haitian Revolution, Indian Removal, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba's independence wars. By tracking the transformation of sentimentalism as the US reacted to, enacted, and intervened in conflict Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History demonstrates how marginalized writers negotiated hemispheric encounters amidst the gendered, racialized, and cultural violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. It remaps sentiment's familiar transatlantic and national scholarly frameworks through authors such as Leonora Sansay and Mary Peabody Mann, and considers how authors including John Rollin Ridge, John S. and Harriet Jacobs, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Victor Séjour, and Martin R. Delany adapted the mode. Transamerican sentimentalism cannot unseat the violence of the nineteenth-century Americas, but it does produce other potential outcomes-including new paradigms for understanding the coquette, a locally successful informal diplomacy, and motivations for violent slave revolt. Such transformations mark not sentiment's failures or distortions, but its adaptive attempts to survive and thrive.

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere
Author: Raphael Dalleo
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813931982

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Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story. Dalleo's comparative approach will be important to Caribbeanists from all of the region's linguistic traditions, and his book contributes even more broadly to debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies about postmodernity and globalization.

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth Century Americas
Author: Carmen E. Lamas
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780192644923

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The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures, as they are currently understood. Instead, it reveals their fundamentally interdependent natures, politically, socially, historically, and aesthetically, thereby recognizing the degree of mutual imbrication of their peoples and literatures of the period. Largely archived in Spanish, it addresses concerns palpably felt within (and integral to) the US and beyond. English-language works also find a place on this continuum and have real implications for the political and cultural life of hispanophone and anglophone communities in the US. Moreover, the central role of Latina/o translations signal the global and the local nature of the continuum. For the Latino Continuum embeds layered and complex political and literary contexts and overlooked histories, situated as it is at the crossroads of both hemispheric and translatlantic currents of exchange often effaced by the logic of borders-national, cultural, religious, linguistic and temporal. To recover this continuum of Latinidad, which is neither confined to the US or Latin American nation states nor located primarily within them, is to recover forgotten histories of the hemisphere, and to find new ways of seeing the past as we have understood it. The figures of the Félix Varela, Miguel Teurbe Tolón, Eusebio Guiteras, José Martí and Martín Morúa Delgado serve as points of departures for this reconceptualization of the intersection between American, Latin American, Cuban, and Latinx studies.

Imagined Transnationalism

Imagined Transnationalism
Author: K. Concannon,F. Lomelí,M. Priewe
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2009-11-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780230103320

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With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.