Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Transamerican New Orleans
Latino Literature of the Gulf, from the Spanish Colonial Period to Post-Katrina
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
New Orleans has historically functioned as a cultural estuary, where the Anglo-American and Latin-Caribbean worlds meet and comingle. Its plurilingual print culture reflects that extensive admixture. Both the first Spanish-language newspaper in the United States (El Misisipi, 1808) and its first Spanish-language novel (Un matrimonio como hay muchos, 1849) were published in New Orleans. Over the course of the twentieth century, people from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras and other nations of Central America in particular have been drawn to Louisiana by deep economic ties and as the result of political transformations in the wider Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Basin region. Today, the area has a profoundly diverse Latina/o population by nation of origin.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 176 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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