Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures
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Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures
About This Book
The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.
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- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Cultural and Historical Frontiers
- On Herculesâ Threshold: Epistemic Pluralities and Oceanic Realignments in the Euro-Atlantic Space
- Imperial History and the Postnational Other
- Transatlantic Sovereignty and the Creation of the Modern Colonial Subject
- Part II Literary and Aesthetic Exchanges
- From Granada to Havana: Federico GarcĂa Lorca, the Avant-Garde, and Orientalism
- Mexican Muralism and the North American Anti-Aesthetics
- Transatlantic Musical Crossover: Miguel Bosé in the U.S.A. and Bruce Springsteen in Spain
- Part III Ideas in Circulation
- Traveling Objects in Flora TristĂĄnâs Pilgrimages of a Pariah and Frances CalderĂłnâs Life in Mexico
- The Discovery of the Mediterranean: Alfonso Reyes and the Spanish American Claim to Spanish Culture
- Translocal Misreadings: Eugeni dâOrs in Latin America and Transatlantic Studies Today
- Part IV Repression and Expression
- Language and Empire: Postcolonial âenglishâ and Unamunoâs âarchi-Castilianâ
- A Transatlantic Discourse of Empowerment: Gendering Slavery in Sab
- A Disconcerting Language: Valle-InclĂĄnâs Tirano Banderas and the Hispanic Atlantic
- Epilogue: Reflections on the Geographical Turn
- Index