A01=Rodrigo Lazo
Author_Rodrigo Lazo
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exiles
immigrants
nineteenth century
Spanish
travelers
Product details
- ISBN 9780813943558
- Weight: 428g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2020
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-Language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-Language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who Settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism.
The first book-length study of Philadelphia publications by intellectuals such as Vicente Rocafuerte, José María Heredia, Manuel Torres, Juan Germán Roscio, and Servando Teresa de Mier, Letters from Filadelfia offers an approach to discussing their work as part of early Latino literature and the way in which it connects to the United States and other parts of the Americas. Lazo’s book is an important contribution to the complex history of the United States’ first capital. More than the foundation for the U.S. nation-state, Philadelphia reached far beyond its city limits and, as considered here, suggests new ways to conceptualize what it means to be American.
Rodrigo Lazo is Professor of English and Spanish at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States.
