{"id":2813,"date":"2012-03-05T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T09:06:11","slug":"lomas-laura-translating-empire-jose-marti-migrant-latino-subjects-and-american-modernities-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Lomas, Laura. Translating Empire: Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/translating_empire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/translating_empire-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"translating_empire\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/translating_empire-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/translating_empire.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 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\u00e9 Mart\u00ed 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\u00ed and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating Anglo-American culture into a Latino-American idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latin Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Mart\u00ed 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\u00ed actually distanced himself from Emerson\u2019s ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitman\u2019s expansionist politics. She questions the association of Mart\u00ed with pan-Americanism, 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 \u201cfree\u201d trade. Lomas finds Mart\u00ed undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his self-published translation of Helen Hunt Jackson\u2019s popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino\/a Americans as inherently unfit for self-government. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Mart\u00ed\u2019s late-nineteenth-century radical decolonizing project.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Translating-Empire-Subjects-Modernities-Americanists\/dp\/0822343258\/ref=sr_1_20?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1331965220&#038;sr=1-20\" target=\"_blank\">Buy at Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Translating-Empire-Subjects-Modernities-Americanists\/dp\/0822343258\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1332708117&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy at Amazon.de<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lomas, Laura. <em>Translating Empire: Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities<\/em>. Duke UP, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lomas, Laura. 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