Letters from Filadelfia
Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780813943541
- ISBN-10081394354X
- Library of Congress Control Number2019015596
- OCLC Control Number1091587697
- Better World Books9780813943541
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28914538M
Classifications
- LCCPQ7078.5.P45L39 2019
- LCCPQ7078.5.P45 L39 2020
Description
"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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