Latinx Civil Wars: The Formation of Latinidad in an Age of Revolution and Rebellion - Couverture souple

Alemán, Jesse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479837148 ISBN 13 : 9781479837144

Editeur : New York University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The mid-nineteenth century was a crucible for the emergence of US Latinidad. Against the backdrop of the US–Mexico War, the Cuban wars of independence, and the American Civil War, Latinx identity took shape in fractured and contested ways – through struggles over race, slavery, and governance in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. Latinx Civil Wars uncovers this turbulent history through a rich archive of letters, military dispatches, journalism, and literature that reveal Latinx identity as itself at war during the long Civil War era. These embattled writings illuminate how questions of race, displacement, and assimilation reverberated across national and cultural borders, producing competing visions of what it meant to be Latinx in nineteenth-century America. Alemán reconstructs this contested landscape by bringing together well-known figures – such as María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Loreta Janeta Velázquez, and Rafael Chacón – with overlooked participants like Miguel Otero, James Santiago Tafolla, and Federico and Adolfo Cavada. Their lives and words trace a diaspora negotiating the fraught intersections of race, class, language, and national allegiance across Union and Confederate lines. Challenging historians and literary scholars alike, Latinx Civil Wars demonstrates how the formation of Latinx identity was entangled with slavery, independence, racialization, and rebellion – revealing Latinidad as a product not of unity, but of conflict and contradiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jesse Alemán is Professor of English and Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico. He is co-editor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation (2007), and The Latino Nineteenth Century (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479837148
• ISBN 13: 9781479837144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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