| Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States Contributor(s): Luis-Brown, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822343665 ISBN-13: 9780822343660 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 Annotation: "From his perceptive reconsideration of the role of mestizaje in the writings of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Helen Hunt Jackson, to his astute analysis of the redeployments of sentimentalism and primitivism by W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Nicholas Guillen, David Luis-Brown's careful research and thoughtful critiques demonstrate the necessity of thinking beyond the nation, of viewing race and empire from hemispheric and global perspectives. "Waves of Decolonization" is at one and the same time a radical revision of our hemisphere's literary history and proof of the possibility of a post-nationalist and post-imperial American studies."--George Lipsitz, author of "Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2008013871 |
| Series: New Americanists |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Mexican |
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| Publisher Description: In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders, novelists, and social scientists, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Jos Mart , Claude McKay, Luis-Brown brings together an array of thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and imperialism to similar struggles in other nations. With discourses and practices of hemispheric citizenship, writers in the Americas broadened conventional conceptions of rights to redress their loss under the expanding United States empire. In focusing on the transnational production of the national in the wake of U.S. imperialism, Luis-Brown emphasizes the need for expanding the linguistic and national boundaries of U.S. American culture and history. Luis-Brown traces unfolding narratives of decolonization across a broad range of texts. He explores how Mart and Du Bois, known as the founders of Cuban and black nationalisms, came to develop anticolonial discourses that cut across racial and national divides. He illuminates how cross-fertilizations among the Harlem Renaissance, Mexican indigenismo, and Cuban negrismo in the 1920s contributed to broader efforts to keep pace with transformations unleashed by ongoing conflicts over imperialism, and he considers how those transformations were explored in novels by McKay of Jamaica, Jes s Masdeu of Cuba, and Miguel ngel Men ndez of Mexico. Focusing on ethnography's uneven contributions to decolonization, he investigates how Manuel Gamio, a Mexican anthropologist, and Zora Neale Hurston each adapted metropolitan social science for use by writers from the racialized periphery. |