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Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, And American Modernities (New Americanists),New
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In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenthcentury Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary Jos Mart and other Latino migrants living in New York City translated North American literary and cultural texts into Spanish. Lomas reads the canonical literature and popular culture of the United States in the Gilded Age through the eyes of Mart and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating AngloAmerican culture into a LatinoAmerican idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latin Americans.Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Mart through readings of neglected texts and reinterpretations of his major essays. Against the customary view that emphasizes his strong identification with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, the author demonstrates that over several years, Mart actually distanced himself from Emersons ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitmans expansionist politics. She questions the association of Mart with panAmericanism, pointing out that in the 1880s, the Cuban journalist warned against foreign geopolitical influence imposed through ostensibly friendly meetings and the promotion of hemispheric peace and free trade. Lomas finds Mart undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his selfpublished translation of Helen Hunt Jacksons popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino/a Americans as inherently unfit for selfgovernment. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Marts latenineteenthcentury radical decolonizing project.
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