Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Note on texts and translations......Page 14
Prologue......Page 15
BLINDNESS AND BINOCULARITY......Page 29
NATION/TRANSNATION: A THIRTY-YEAR PRÉCIS......Page 37
“AMERICAN RENAISSANCE” AND THE COMPETING PUBLIC SPHERES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 40
DIACHRONY, GENEALOGY, REVISIONISM: PHILLIS WHEATLEY TO OCTAVIO PAZ......Page 47
2 Scattered traditions: the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal......Page 51
THE WRITING(S) OF 1826......Page 54
HISPANOPHILIA AND EXCEPTIONALISM: JICOTÉNCAL AND/IN EXILE......Page 61
NATION AND COLLABORATION: VARELA, HEREDIA, ROCAFUERTE, AND THE ITINERANCIES OF AUTHORSHIP......Page 65
JICOTÉNCAL’S HEMISPHERIC ARENA: DEL MONTE’S COOPER, HEREDIA’S COOPER......Page 71
JICOTÉNCAL, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, AND THE REPRODUCTION OF HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING......Page 76
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT: THE DISCOURSE OF CONQUEST IN THE 1840S......Page 88
FRANCOPHOBIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN THE 1830S......Page 98
CRYILLE BISSETTE AND (TRANS)AMERICAN REVOLUTION......Page 103
HENRI GRÉGOIRE AND DE LA LITTÉRATURE DES NÈGRES: JEFFERSONIANISM REVISITED......Page 108
THE FRENCH CARIBBEANIZATION OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY: A POETICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM......Page 114
“LESS FRENCH THAN THE AMERICAN IS ENGLISH”: LITERARY FUSION IN THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN......Page 127
VICTOR SÉJOUR AND THE COLONIAL FAMILY ROMANCE......Page 131
TRANSNATIONLISM, MULTILINGUALISM, AND THE EARLY HISTORIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE......Page 139
CUBAN WRITERS, US READERS: TRANSMISSION AND APPROPRIATION IN THE 1840S......Page 146
THE TRANSAMERICAN BRYANT: “A STORY OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA”......Page 153
CIRILO VILLAVERDE, CUBA’S LITERARY FATE, AND THE US MACHINERY OF SLAVERY......Page 167
DOMINGO DEL MONTE AND ALEXANDER HILL EVERETT: THE POLITICS OF CUBAN-US LITERARY EXCHANGE......Page 174
GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA AND THE RESISTANCE OF MANIFEST DESTINY......Page 187
THE MANY TONGUES OF “YANKEELAND”......Page 194
“EL ÁRBOL DE LAS MANITAS”: FRANCES CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA......Page 199
LA MANO COLORADA: STEPHENS’S TRAVEL IN YUCATAN AND THE MATTER OF ORIGINS......Page 205
TRAVEL WRITING AND THE POLITICS OF RECEPTION......Page 209
EL FILIBUSTERO: THE YUCATECAN LITERARY TERRAIN OF JUSTO SIERRA O’REILLY......Page 213
LA HIJA DE RAPPACCINI: OCTAVIO PAZ AND THE ALLEGORY OF HISTORY......Page 226
“THE DOPPELGÄNGER IN YOUR PSYCHE”......Page 232
IMPASSE AND IMAGINATION: HAITI IN THE US PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 235
FAUBERT’S HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REVOLUTION......Page 242
THE THEATRE OF SLAVERY......Page 247
REVISION IN L’AUTRE MONDE: OGÉ AND UNCLE TOM’S CABIN......Page 250
FRANCO-AFRICANISM AND US LITERARY HISTORY......Page 255
Epilogue “Our whole Caribbean elsewhere”: Julia Alvarez and transamerican renaissance at the millennium......Page 265
PROLOGUE......Page 279
1 INTRODUCTION: TRANSAMERICAN RENAISSANCE......Page 280
2 SCATTERED TRADITIONS: THE TRANSAMERICAN GENEALOGIES OF JICOTÉNCAL......Page 290
3 A FRANCOPHONE VIEW OF COMPARATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE: REVUE DES COLONIES AND THE TRANSLATIONS OF ABOLITION......Page 301
4 CUBAN STORIES......Page 308
5 HAWTHORNE’S MEXICAN GENEALOGIES......Page 315
6 TRANSAMERICAN THEATRE: PIERRE FAUBERT AND L’ONCLE TOM......Page 321
EPILOGUE......Page 327
Index......Page 328