The Filibustero

Author : J. J. Knopf
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0533157641

Get Book

The Filibustero by J. J. Knopf Pdf

Set against the backdrop of the United States' raging Civil War, Irishman Perry Jameson finds himself to be a soldier of fortune, a mercenary fighting for what he knows will be a lost cause. In the midst of the fighting, Perry finds himself in the arms of several women of the war. Marie, a freed slave and practicing voodoo princess, is a skilled nurse who is highly in demand during the bloody conflict of brother against brother. There is also Ellen Anson, the wife of a wealthy plantation owner. When Perry becomes involved with both women, it is time to leave the relative comfort of his new found home and be off to fight with the Confederate troops- fighting what is perhaps the bloodiest battle of the war.

Author : James T. Siegel,Audrey R. Kahin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718946

Get Book

Southeast Asia over Three Generations by James T. Siegel,Audrey R. Kahin Pdf

In honor of Benedict Anderson's many years as a teacher and his profound contributions to the field of Southeast Asian studies, the editors have collected essays from a number of the many scholars who studied with him. These articles deal with the literature, politics, history, and culture of Southeast Asia, addressing Benedict Anderson's broad concerns.

Author : Benita Sampedro,Simon R. Doubleday
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845454340

Get Book

Border Interrogations by Benita Sampedro,Simon R. Doubleday Pdf

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions-subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the "Spanish" nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions.

Author : Rodrigo Lazo
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807876428

Get Book

Writing to Cuba by Rodrigo Lazo Pdf

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States. Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo argues that to understand these writers and their publications, we must move beyond nation-based models of literary study and consider their connections to both Cuba and the United States. Anchored by the publication of Spanish- and English-language newspapers in the United States, the transnational culture of writers Lazo calls los filibusteros went hand in hand with a long-standing economic flow between the countries and was spurred on by the writers' belief in the American promise of freedom and the hemispheric ambitions of the expansionist U.S. government. Analyzing how U.S. politicians, journalists, and novelists debated the future of Cuba, Lazo argues that the war of words carried out in Cuban-U.S. print culture played a significant role in developing nineteenth-century conceptions of territory, colonialism, and citizenship.

Author : Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789715425919

Get Book

Philippine Studies by Priscelina Patajo-Legasto Pdf

These essays by Philippine and U.S.-based scholars illustrate the dynamism and complexities of the discursive field of Philippine studies as a critique of vestiges of "universalist" (Western/hegemonic) paradigms; as an affirmation of "traditional" and "emergent" cultural practices; as a site for new readings of "old" texts and "new" popular forms brought into the ambit of serious scholarship; and as a liberative space for new art and literary genres.

Author : Vicente L. Rafael
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387411

Get Book

The Promise of the Foreign by Vicente L. Rafael Pdf

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their strangeness. Rafael examines the workings of the foreign in the Filipinos’ fascination with Castilian, the language of the Spanish colonizers. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists saw the possibility of arriving at a lingua franca with which to overcome linguistic, regional, and class differences. Yet they were also keenly aware of the social limits and political hazards of this linguistic fantasy. Through close readings of nationalist newspapers and novels, the vernacular theater, and accounts of the 1896 anticolonial revolution, Rafael traces the deep ambivalence with which elite nationalists and lower-class Filipinos alike regarded Castilian. The widespread belief in the potency of Castilian meant that colonial subjects came in contact with a recurring foreignness within their own language and society. Rafael shows how they sought to tap into this uncanny power, seeing in it both the promise of nationhood and a menace to its realization. Tracing the genesis of this promise and the ramifications of its betrayal, Rafael sheds light on the paradox of nationhood arising from the possibilities and risks of translation. By repeatedly opening borders to the arrival of something other and new, translation compels the nation to host foreign presences to which it invariably finds itself held hostage. While this condition is perhaps common to other nations, Rafael shows how its unfolding in the Philippine colony would come to be claimed by Filipinos, as would the names of the dead and their ghostly emanations.

Author : Marco Cabrera Geserick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498559829

Get Book

The Legacy of the Filibuster War by Marco Cabrera Geserick Pdf

The Legacy of the Filibuster War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Central America analyzes the development of the Filibuster War as a symbol of Costa Rican national identity and presents several challenges to traditional theories of modernization and the creation of nationalism. By focusing on the development of cultural features defined by the transformation of collective memory, Marco Cabrera Geserick argues that national identity is a dynamic process defined according to local, national, and international contexts. Modernization theories connect the creation of symbols of official nationalism with the period of consolidation of the nation-state, yet the Filibuster War started its rise to Costa Rican national identity years later. Cabrera Geserick analyzes the threats to sovereignty and imperialist advances that served to promote the memory of the Filibuster War, while local social transformations—such as the abolition of the army, the rise of popular forces, and internal political conflict—have continued to force drastic changes on the interpretation of the war.

Author : Raphael Dalleo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932026

Get Book

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere by Raphael Dalleo Pdf

Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story. Dalleo’s comparative approach will be important to Caribbeanists from all of the region’s linguistic traditions, and his book contributes even more broadly to debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies about postmodernity and globalization.

Author : E. San Juan, Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105120732

Get Book

SISA'S VENGEANCE: Rizal / Woman / Revolution by E. San Juan, Jr. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9715741606

Get Book

World Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sony Coráñez Bolton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024187

Get Book

Crip Colony by Sony Coráñez Bolton Pdf

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje. He demonstrates that Filipino mestizo writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used mestizaje as a racial ideology of ability that marked Indigenous inhabitants of the Philippines as lacking in civilization and in need of uplift and rehabilitation. Heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire. In this way, mestizaje allowed for supposedly superior mixed-race subjects to govern the archipelago in collusion with American imperialism. By bringing disability studies together with studies of colonialism and queer-of-color critique, Coráñez Bolton extends theorizations of mestizaje beyond the United States and Latin America while considering how Filipinx and Filipinx American thought fundamentally enhances understandings of the colonial body and the racial histories of disability.

Author : Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137413079

Get Book

Coloniality of Diasporas by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Pdf

Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book redefines the Caribbean beyond the postcolonial debate.

Author : Rodolfo Acuña
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816534500

Get Book

Sonoran Strongman by Rodolfo Acuña Pdf

Sonoran Strongman provides an in-depth look at a turbulent period in Mexico's history. During this era, Sonora was plagued with domestic unrest and threatened by foreign invasion. The state's citizens, hoping Ignacio Pesqueira would be the "man of action" capable of restoring order, elected him governor by an overwhelming vote. He became a virtual dictator and ruled Sonora from 1856–1876. Pesqueira was the product of troubled times, and the times shaped his destiny. Author Acuña presents an authoritative account of the "Strongman's" rise to power and vividly portrays the suffering of northern Mexico's people.

Author : Maria Angela Diaz
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820366517

Get Book

A Continuous State of War by Maria Angela Diaz Pdf

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971122

Get Book

Cuban Studies 38 by Louis A. Perez, Jr. Pdf

Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.