{"product_id":"hispanicism-and-early-us-literature-spain-mexico-cuba-and-the-origins-of-us-national-identity-hardback-9780817319779","title":"Hispanicism and Early US Literature; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity (Hardback) 9780817319779","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHispanicism and Early US Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn C. Havard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817319779\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.4 x 2.5 cm, 0.483 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHavard significantly expands and enriches the coverage of sources that have been neglected in surveys and monographs on the literature of antebellum America.\"\" - Iván Jaksic, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eHispanicism and Early US Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-researched study that explores US literary responses to Spain and Spanish America during an important period of national identity formation.\"\" - Kirsten Silva Gruesz, author of \u003ci\u003eAmbassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWell-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHispanicism and Early US Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements in the evolution of early national and antebellum US literature. He argues that Spanish-speaking countries have long held a broad fascination for Americans and that stock narratives regarding these peoples were central to the period’s US literature.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the work of eighteenth-century literary nationalists such as Joel Barlow, US literature has been drawn to reflect on Spain and Spanish America. Such reflection was often inspired by geopolitical conflicts such as US expansion into Spanish Louisiana and the US-Mexican War. Havard terms the discourse emerging from these reflections “Hispanicism.” This discourse was used to portray the dominant viewpoint of classical liberalism that propounded an American exceptionalism premised on the idea that Hispanophone peoples were comparatively lacking the capacity for self-determination, hence rationalizing imperialism. On the conservative side were warnings against progress through conquest.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eHavard delves into selected works of early national and antebellum literature on Spain and Spanish America to illuminate US national identity. Poetry and novels by Joel Barlow, James Fenimore Cooper, and Herman Melville are mined to further his arguments regarding identity, liberalism, and conservatism. Understudied authors Mary Peabody Mann and José Antonio Saco are held up to contrast American and Cuban views on Hispanicism and Cuban annexation as well as to develop the focus on nationality and ideology via differences in views on liberalism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMore than just a work of literary criticism, there is a substantial amount of cultural and political history discussed. Havard’s use of archival sources such as political articles and personal correspondence elucidates not just literary genres and movements such as early national epic poetry, abolitionist fiction, and the American Renaissance, but also US culture writ large.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570145685784,"sku":"9780817319779","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hispanicism-and-early-us-literature-spain-mexico-cuba-and-the-origins-of-us-national-identity-hardback-9780817319779","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}