Imagining 'America' in late Nineteenth Century Spain
Imagining 'America' in late Nineteenth Century Spain

Author: Kate Ferris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1137352809

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This book examines the processes of production, circulation and reception of images of America in late nineteenth century Spain. When late nineteenth century Spaniards looked at the United States, they, like Tocqueville, ‘saw more than America’. What did they see? Between the ‘glorious’ liberal revolution of 1868 and the run-up to the 1898 war with the US that would end Spain’s New World empire, Spanish liberal and democratic reformers imagined the USA as a place where they could preview the ‘modern way of life’, as a political and social model (or anti-model) to emulate, appropriate or reject, and above all as a 100 year experiment of republicanism, democracy and liberty in practice. Through their writings and discussions of the USA, these Spaniards debated and constructed their own modernity and imagined the place of their nation in the modern world.

La Emancipación de los Esclavos en los Estados-Unidos (Classic Reprint)
La Emancipación de los Esclavos en los Estados-Unidos (Classic Reprint)

Author: Rafael María de Labra

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780332079233

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Excerpt from La Emancipación de los Esclavos en los Estados-Unidos Por último, conviene n'o olvidar que las pr0porcio nes y la importancia que la esclavitud en si misma tenia en los Estados - Unidos, eran muy diversas á las que ofrece en nuestras islas de Cuba y Puerto - Rico. Allí el número de esclavos llegaba a al lado de hombres de color-libres y blan cos en una extension de más de ocho millones de kiló metros cuadrados. Aquí se trata de comarcas peque ñas, cuyos límites fija el mar y cuya poblacion total, donde más, pasa difícilmente de millon y medio de almas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

America Imagined
America Imagined

Author: Axel Körner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-16

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1137018984

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Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American societies, not only as a model of social and political organization - one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural and social backgrounds.

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920: Volume 1
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920: Volume 1

Author: Evelyn O'Callaghan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1108678327

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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.