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Author:

Lazo, Rodrigo author.

Title:

Letters from Filadelfia : early Latino literature and the trans-American elite / Rodrigo Lazo.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 287 pages : 24 cm.

Subject:

Spanish literature--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History and criticism.
Spanish literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Spanish literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--18th century.
Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
Intellectual life.
Spanish literature.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

"Publication Date: February 2020" -- Accompanying press release. ViU Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

La Famosa Filadelfia -- The Trans-American Elite -- Faith in Print -- Anonymously Yours: Republican Man -- Leaving Filadelfia, or Archival Dislocations.

Summary:

"Letters from Filadelfia examines Spanish-language writing published in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century by exiles, travelers, and immigrants who sought to influence sociopolitical conditions throughout the Americas. These political tracts, economic treatises, histories, novels, and books of poetry would have been considered seditious in the colonial territories administered by Spain, and they circulated throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, helping to inspire independence all over the region. Lazo shows how this most American of cities opened conversations about political organization and economic conditions that crossed from the English language to Spanish and back"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Writing the early Americas

ISBN:

0813943558
9780813943558
081394354X
9780813943541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091587697

LCCN:

2019015596

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)