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
- Chapter 1 Archiving Indians/Indios and Fabricating Whites
- Chapter 2 Forever Present and Silent No More:
- Chapter 3 Talismanic Fragments of the Muslim Atlantic
- Chapter 4 The Mid Nineteenth-Century Press and Periodical Poetry
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Part IV Transcreating
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - The Mid Nineteenth-Century Press and Periodical Poetry
Francisco P. Ramírez’s Borderlands Anthology
from Part I - Transacting
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
- Chapter 1 Archiving Indians/Indios and Fabricating Whites
- Chapter 2 Forever Present and Silent No More:
- Chapter 3 Talismanic Fragments of the Muslim Atlantic
- Chapter 4 The Mid Nineteenth-Century Press and Periodical Poetry
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Part IV Transcreating
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines what happens when we decolonize the materiality of the nineteenth-century Hispano-American anthology, when we move away from the anthology as a book form with colonial publishers, titles, sections, bylines, and expand it to centralize the (formerly) colonized and their ephemera, that is, Hispano-American editors, readers, and writers as well the Spanish-language newspapers they edited, read, and wrote for. What do these perspectives teach us about the emergence of what we now call a Latinx people and literary tradition? Mirroring the instability of the region following the US–Mexico War and the ontological uncertainty of its readers, newspapers like the Los Angeles-based El Clamor Público represent the formation of a pre-Latinx literary tradition. The newspaper’s editor and proprietor, Francisco P. Ramírez gave expression to what I call a Hispano-American borderlands anthology of poetry before there was a formalized creation of a Latinx poetic tradition in the United States.
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- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886 , pp. 106 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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