Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknwledgments xix
5. 1. "Alone with the Terrible Hurricane": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature
6. Geografia Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System 7
7. Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation 13
8. The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice 20
9. Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency 25
10. 2. The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama
11. Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime 30
12. The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood 39
13. Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta 48
14. Vistas del /nfierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente 61
15. 3. Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico
16. "A Mist of Lurid Light": Translation Practice in the Americas 71
17. Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion 87
18. Converting Evangeline to Evangelina 94
19. In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border 100
20. 4. The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade
21. New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century 108
22. The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the "Spanish Element" 121
23. Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question 136
24. Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls 145
25. 5. The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors
26. Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York 163
27. Staging Gender on the California Borderlands 176
28. Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture 186
29. Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue 196
30. CODA The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon 205
31. Notes 213
32. Works Cited 255
33. Index 279