Diasporas

doi:10.1017/9781108976367.011

Chapter 10 - Diasporas

from Part II - Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2023

Marissa L. Ambio

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Fernando Degiovanni and

Javier Uriarte

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Fernando Degiovanni: Affiliation:
City University of New York
Javier Uriarte: Affiliation:
Stony Brook University, State University of New York

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This chapter argues that while New York’s Cuban and Puerto Rican communities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cultivated a Spanish-language press to address national crises, the periodicals they produced also fostered transnational networks, Latin American solidarity, a critical hemispheric consciousness, and an early US Latino discourse. Through an overview and analysis of the periodicals, the chapter outlines national concerns while underscoring the periodicals’ transnational dimensions. Illustrated magazines, for example, circulated throughout Latin America and conceptualized the region based on cultural affinities promoting a Hispanophone audience, while hemispheric collaboration resulted in the founding of Latin American periodicals in New York. Periodicals of the Ten Years War (1868–1878) anticipate the criticisms of US expansionism and the immigrant narrative associated with José Martí and contemporary US Latino literature respectively. Lastly, Jesús Colón’s sketches examine US and Puerto Rican racial paradigms, demonstrating the divergence between these cultural constructs.

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nineteenth-century Latino literature nineteenth-century Cuban émigrés Jesús Colón Cuban War of Independence (1895)diaspora José Martí Puerto Rican migration Ten Years War (1868–1878)Spanish-language periodicals of New York

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930 , pp. 148 - 162

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.011 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2022

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