Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures (The New Urban Atlantic)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 On Hercules’ Threshold: Epistemic Pluralities and Oceanic Realignments in the Euro-Atlantic Space (Nicoletta Pireddu)....Pages 19-45 Imperial History and the Postnational Other (Gonzalo Navajas)....Pages 47-63 Transatlantic Sovereignty and the Creation of the Modern Colonial Subject (Gerard Aching)....Pages 65-83 Front Matter ....Pages 85-85 From Granada to Havana: Federico García Lorca, the Avant-Garde, and Orientalism (José Luis Venegas)....Pages 87-111 Mexican Muralism and the North American Anti-Aesthetics (Eduardo Subirats)....Pages 113-133 Transatlantic Musical Crossover: Miguel Bosé in the U.S.A. and Bruce Springsteen in Spain (Elizabeth Scarlett)....Pages 135-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Traveling Objects in Flora Tristán’s Pilgrimages of a Pariah and Frances Calderón’s Life in Mexico (Leila Gómez)....Pages 159-178 The Discovery of the Mediterranean: Alfonso Reyes and the Spanish American Claim to Spanish Culture (Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado)....Pages 179-205 Translocal Misreadings: Eugeni d’Ors in Latin America and Transatlantic Studies Today (Tania Gentic)....Pages 207-235 Front Matter ....Pages 237-237 Language and Empire: Postcolonial “english” and Unamuno’s “archi-Castilian” (Francisco LaRubia-Prado)....Pages 239-272 A Transatlantic Discourse of Empowerment: Gendering Slavery in Sab (Brígida M. Pastor)....Pages 273-295 A Disconcerting Language: Valle-Inclán’s Tirano Banderas and the Hispanic Atlantic (Javier Krauel)....Pages 297-322 Epilogue: Reflections on the Geographical Turn (Roberta Johnson)....Pages 323-326 Back Matter ....Pages 327-335 Annotation 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 conceptualisations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the 19th century to today Tania Gentic, Francisco Larubia-prado, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.