Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Transacting
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Chapter 9 When Words Are Not Enough
- Chapter 10 The First Filipino and the Archive
- Chapter 11 Anarchist Media, Cuba’s War for Independence, and the Forging of a Radical Transnational Latinidad, 1880s–1890s
- Chapter 12 Creole Patriotism and the Colonial Archive
- Part IV Transcreating
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Anarchist Media, Cuba’s War for Independence, and the Forging of a Radical Transnational Latinidad, 1880s–1890s
from Part III - Transgressing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2025
Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Transacting
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Chapter 9 When Words Are Not Enough
- Chapter 10 The First Filipino and the Archive
- Chapter 11 Anarchist Media, Cuba’s War for Independence, and the Forging of a Radical Transnational Latinidad, 1880s–1890s
- Chapter 12 Creole Patriotism and the Colonial Archive
- Part IV Transcreating
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the newspapers anarchists used to create and disseminate an anarchist Latinidad that was a radical, transnational, anti-capitalist, anticlerical, anti-imperial, and Spanish language-based identity forged initially by US-based migrant anarchists from Spain and Cuba. Using the anarchist press in Florida and New York, anarchists rejected the importance of identifying themselves as “Spanish” or “Cuban” and instead forged a cross-border working-class identity. In creating this identity, anarchists focused on their encounters with US capitalism and republican democracy from 1886 to 1898. Such encounters conditioned their perspectives on what an independent Cuba could look like and what it should avoid. Anarchists also debated whether or not to support the Cuban War for Independence. Was it just another nationalist project that would usher in a new, exploitative ruling elite, or could an independent, non-nationalist anarchist society be constructed? These latter debates began in mid-1891– three and a half years before the mambises launched their uprising against Spanish colonialism.
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