Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity /
Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States. In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements...
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| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1738792 |
Table of Contents:
- Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain
- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism
- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity
- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity
- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity
- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.