Book ID: CBB019353420

Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite (2020)

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Lazo, Rodrigo (Author)


University of Virginia Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism.The first book-length study of Philadelphia publications by intellectuals such as Vicente Rocafuerte, José María Heredia, Manuel Torres, Juan Germán Roscio, and Servando Teresa de Mier, Letters from Filadelfia offers an approach to discussing their work as part of early Latino literature and the way in which it connects to the United States and other parts of the Americas. Lazo’s book is an important contribution to the complex history of the United States’ first capital. More than the foundation for the U.S. nation-state, Philadelphia reached far beyond its city limits and, as considered here, suggests new ways to conceptualize what it means to be American.

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Authors & Contributors
Tapti Roy
Thomas Stubblefield
Orr, Leah
King, Rachael Scarborough
Mikihito Tanaka
Cataldi, Maddalena
Concepts
Methods of communication; media
Mass media
Print culture
Printing industry
Technology and culture
Technology and society
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
United States
Devon (England)
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Americas
Japan
Institutions
Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World, 1950-52
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