Letters from Filadelfia : early Latino literature and the trans-American elite /
Letters from Filadelfia examines Spanish-language writing published in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century by exiles, travelers and immigrants who sought to influence sociopolitical conditions throughout the Americas. These political tracts, economic treatises, histories, novels and books o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Writing the early Americas.
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| Summary: | Letters from Filadelfia examines Spanish-language writing published in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century by exiles, travelers and immigrants who sought to influence sociopolitical conditions throughout the Americas. These political tracts, economic treatises, histories, novels and books of poetry would have been considered seditious in the colonial territories administered by Spain, and they circulated throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, helping to inspire independence all over the region. Lazo shows how this most American of cities opened conversations about political organization and economic conditions that crossed from the English language to Spanish and back. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 287 pages : 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813943541 081394354X 9780813943558 0813943558 |