Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

by Laura Lomas

Book Overview

In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343258
• ISBN13: 9780822343257
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"