Filibustering Cuba: Cecilia Valdés and a memory of nation in the Americas

American Literature

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-30

  Lazo, Rodrigo ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65849486873     PISSN: 00029831     EISSN: 15272117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00029831-74-1-1     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. El Espejo, August 1883, 6
2. William Luis, Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1990), 100
3. See, for example, two pieces from the 1890s by Manuel de La Cruz, "Cecilia Valdés" and "Cirilo Villaverde," both in Acerca de Cirilo Villaverde, ed. Imeldo Alvarez (Havana: Letras Cubanas, 1982)
4. Rodolfo J. Cortina, "Cuban Literature of the United States: 1824-1959," in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, ed. Ramón Gutiérrez and Genaro Padilla (Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, 1993), 69
5. Gerald Poyo, "With All and for the Good of All": The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848-1898 (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1989), xvi
6. See José David Saldívar, The Dialectics of Our America (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1991)
7. Carolyn Porter, "What We Know That We Don't Know: Remapping American Literary Studies," American Literary History 6 (fall 1994): 467-526
8. For various discussions of how an "Americas" paradigm can influence conceptions of American literature, see Paul Jay, "The Myth of 'America' and the Politics of Location: Modernity, Border Studies, and the Literature of the Americas," Arizona Quarterly 54 (summer 1998): 165-92
9. Janice Radway, "'What's in a Name?': Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 20 November 1998," American Quarterly 51 (March 1999): 1-32
10. and Kirsten Silva Gruesz, "El Gran Poeta Longfellow and a Psalm of Exile," American Literary History 10 (fall 1998): 395-427
11. Gregory Jay, American Literature and the Culture Wars (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997), 182
12. "The Fourth of July," El Horizonte, 4 July 1850
13. Chaffin, Fatal Glory, 2
14. "Cuba," United States Magazine and Democratic Review, September 1849, 200
15. John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Haschish," The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), 391
16. Miguel T. Tolón, "To Cuba," La Verdad, 30 January 1852 (my translation)
17. See José Manuel Carbonell, Los poetas de "El laúd del desterrado" (Havana: El Avisador Comercial, 1940)
18. Tolón, "Tercera Epoca de La Verdad," La Verdad, 30 March 1852
19. Villaverde, "El Sr. Saco con Respecto a la Revolución de Cuba," La Verdad, 10 February 1852 (my translation)
20. Villaverde, quoted in "Cuba," Democratic Review, September 1849, 193-201
21. quoted in John M. Kirk, José Martí, Mentor of the Cuban Nation (Tampa: Univ. Presses of Florida, 1983), 48
22. See Louis Pérez Jr., Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1990), 46
23. and Basil Rauch, American Interest in Cuba: 1848-1855 (New York: Octagon Books, 1974), 55
24. Rauch, American Interest, 65
25. See Vilá, Narciso López y su época, 2:42-43
26. "Will the Annexation of Cuba Benefit the Domestic Interests of the Union?" in A Series of Articles, 10
27. "Of the Advantages Which the Annexation of Cuba Offers to the United States," untitled pamphlet (New York: La Verdad Publishing, 1849), 6
28. "A Nuestros Lectores," La Verdad, 3 April 1849 (my translation)
29. Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, Thoughts upon the Incorporation of Cuba into the American Confederation, in Contra-Position to Those Published by José Antonio Saco (New York: La Verdad Publishing, 1849), 19
30. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2d ed. (New York: Verso, 1983), 62
31. See Reinaldo Arenas, La loma del ángel, translated as Graveyard of the Angels (New York: Avon Books, 1987)
32. Vera Kutzinski, Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1993), 21
33. George Handley, Postslavery Literatures in the Americas (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 2000), 53
34. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 255
35. Ibid
36. Doris Sommer, Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), 190
37. See Raimundo Lazo, "Estudio Crítico," in Cecilia Valdés, ed. Raimundo Lazo (Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 1972), xiii
38. José María Heredia, "A Emilia," in El laúd del desterrado, 14
39. "Ought a Free Republic to Possess Slaves?" El Mulato, 27 February 1854
40. Sommer, Proceed with Caution, 199-200
41. Loló de la Torriente, La Habana de Cecilia Valdés (Havana: J. Montero, 1946); my translation