Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures

332 Pages·2017·2.57 MB·English

by  Tania Gentic

THE NEW URBAN ATLANTIC
IMPERIALISM
AND THE
WIDER
ATLANTIC
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and
Politics of Transatlantic Cultures
Edited by
TANIA GENTIC
FRANCISCO LARUBIA-PRADO
The New Urban Atlantic
Series Editor
Elizabeth Fay
University of Massachusetts Boston
Cambridge, MA, USA
The early modern period was witness to an incipient process of transcul-
turation through exploration, mercantilism, colonization, and migration
that set into motion a process of globalization that continues today. The
purpose of this series is to bring together a cultural studies approach -
which freely and unapologetically crosses disciplinary, theoretical, and
political boundaries - with early modern texts and artefacts that bear the
traces of transculturalization and globalization in order to deepen our
understanding of sites of exchange between and within early modern
culture(s). This process can be studied on a large as well as on a small
scale, and this new series is dedicated to both. Possible topics of interest
include, but are not limited to: texts dealing with mercantilism, travel,
exploration, immigration, foreigners, enabling technologies (such as
shipbuilding and navigational instrumentation), mathematics, science,
rhetoric, art, architecture, intellectual history, religion, race, sexuality,
and gender.
More information about this series at
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Tania Gentic · Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Editors
Imperialism
and the Wider Atlantic
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics
of Transatlantic Cultures
Editors
Tania Gentic Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Georgetown University Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC, USA
The New Urban Atlantic
ISBN 978-3-319-58207-8 ISBN 978-3-319-58208-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58208-5
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C
ontents
Introduction 1
Tania Gentic and Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Part I Cultural and Historical Frontiers
On Hercules’ Threshold: Epistemic Pluralities and Oceanic
Realignments in the Euro-Atlantic Space 19
Nicoletta Pireddu
Imperial History and the Postnational Other 47
Gonzalo Navajas
Transatlantic Sovereignty and the Creation of the Modern
Colonial Subject 65
Gerard Aching
Part II Literary and Aesthetic Exchanges
From Granada to Havana: Federico García Lorca,
the Avant-Garde, and Orientalism 87
José Luis Venegas
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vi CONTENTS
Mexican Muralism and the North American Anti-Aesthetics 113
Eduardo Subirats
Transatlantic Musical Crossover: Miguel Bosé
in the U.S.A. and Bruce Springsteen in Spain 135
Elizabeth Scarlett
Part III Ideas in Circulation
Traveling Objects in Flora Tristán’s Pilgrimages of a Pariah
and Frances Calderón’s Life in Mexico 159
Leila Gómez
The Discovery of the Mediterranean: Alfonso Reyes
and the Spanish American Claim to Spanish Culture 179
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Translocal Misreadings: Eugeni d’Ors in Latin America
and Transatlantic Studies Today 207
Tania Gentic
Part IV Repression and Expression
Language and Empire: Postcolonial “english”
and Unamuno’s “archi-Castilian” 239
Francisco LaRubia-Prado
A Transatlantic Discourse of Empowerment: Gendering
Slavery in Sab 273
Brígida M. Pastor
A Disconcerting Language: Valle-Inclán’s Tirano
Banderas and the Hispanic Atlantic 297
Javier Krauel
CONTENTS vii
Epilogue: Reflections on the Geographical Turn 323
Roberta Johnson
Index 327
C
ontributors
Gerard Aching Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Tania Gentic Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Leila Gómez University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA
Roberta Johnson University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Javier Krauel University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Francisco LaRubia-Prado Georgetown University, Washington, DC,
USA
Gonzalo Navajas University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Brígida M. Pastor CSIC-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Madrid, Spain; Swansea University, Wales, UK
Nicoletta Pireddu Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Washington University, Saint Louis, USA
Elizabeth Scarlett University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Eduardo Subirats New York University, New York, USA
José Luis Venegas Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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Introduction
Tania Gentic and Francisco LaRubia-Prado
The transatlantic field of study has had a relatively short but varied
history, despite the fact that the Atlantic as a space, and the crossings
between continents that comprise it, have shaped culture locally and
globally for centuries. Developed by historians working from an Anglo-
European perspective, as a field, the Atlantic emerged in the second half
of the twentieth century as a challenge to the nation-state model.1 Its
development paralleled that of the transatlantic political union between
the United States and Europe following World War II, when intellec-
tuals and politicians on both sides of the ocean sought to open up the
tight linkages between nation-states and ethnicities that had allowed
nationalism to produce such horrifying consequences. One result was the
development of entities such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and a universal declaration of human rights, which sought
to break down the rigid differentiation of peoples based on e thnicity.
Scholars who followed suit produced new area studies models for
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Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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