Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic

Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures

Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado, Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319582078
• eBook ISBN: 9783319582085
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Cultural and Historical Frontiers
• On Hercules’ Threshold: Epistemic Pluralities and Oceanic Realignments in the Euro-Atlantic Space
• Imperial History and the Postnational Other
• Transatlantic Sovereignty and the Creation of the Modern Colonial Subject
• Part II Literary and Aesthetic Exchanges
• From Granada to Havana: Federico García Lorca, the Avant-Garde, and Orientalism
• Mexican Muralism and the North American Anti-Aesthetics
• Transatlantic Musical Crossover: Miguel Bosé in the U.S.A. and Bruce Springsteen in Spain
• Part III Ideas in Circulation
• Traveling Objects in Flora Tristán’s Pilgrimages of a Pariah and Frances Calderón’s Life in Mexico
• The Discovery of the Mediterranean: Alfonso Reyes and the Spanish American Claim to Spanish Culture
• Translocal Misreadings: Eugeni d’Ors in Latin America and Transatlantic Studies Today
• Part IV Repression and Expression
• Language and Empire: Postcolonial “english” and Unamuno’s “archi-Castilian”
• A Transatlantic Discourse of Empowerment: Gendering Slavery in Sab
• A Disconcerting Language: Valle-Inclán’s Tirano Banderas and the Hispanic Atlantic
• Epilogue: Reflections on the Geographical Turn
• Index