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The Woman in Battle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

The Woman in Battle

So which one is Loreta Velazquez? Born into an aristocratic Cuban family, Loreta Velazquez moved to New Orleans as a young lady. There she met a dashing officer in the United States Army. Since her family disapproved of the relationship, she eloped with him and they spent the years before the war at different army posts. When the Civil War began, Velazquez was an enthusiastic supporter of secession and desired to serve the Confederacy. So she purchased an officer's uniform and made adjustments to make herself look more convincingly like a man. With some assistance from friends, she became the dashing Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, who is at first a recruiter for the Confederate Army. Later the transvestite Buford serves in combat at the Battles of Bull Run, Balls Bluff, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh. Although wounded, her secrets are not revealed. Later Velazquez returns to female clothing to serve as a spy, a smuggler, and a counterfeiter.

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo American women writers also used sentimentalism to construct narratives that reframed or countered the violence dominating the nineteenth-century Americas, including the Haitian Revolution, Indian Removal, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba's independence wars. By tracking the transformation of sentimentalism as the US reacted to, enacted, and intervened in conflict Transamerican Sentimentalism a...

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

This work demonstrates how Latina/os have been integral to US and Latin American literature and history since the nineteenth century.

Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons

A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential. Claiming the “x” in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the “x” points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics groun...

Look Away!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Look Away!

DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Empire and The Literature of Sensation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Empire and The Literature of Sensation

Mid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the energy and excitement characteristic of the nation's era of expansion. It also reveals the intense anxiety and conflict of a country struggling with what it will mean, socially and culturally, to incorporate previously held Spanish territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a critical anthology of some of the most popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial "others." Most of the accounts, although widely distributed in nineteenth-century newspapers, pamphlets, or dime store novels, have ...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Chicana/o Realism and the Fiction of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 6

Gale Researcher Guide for: Chicana/o Realism and the Fiction of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Gale Researcher Guide for: Chicana/o Realism and the Fiction of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Latina Legacies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Latina Legacies

Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.

Patriotism by Proxy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Patriotism by Proxy

At the height of the American Civil War in 1863 the Union instated the first ever federal draft. This book examines the draft as a cultural formation and develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives at this time.