Dividing the Isthmus Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures
In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as...
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Abstract | In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus—a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives. Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines. Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas. Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies. |
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AbstractList | No detailed description available for "Dividing the Isthmus". In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus—a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives. Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines. Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas. Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies. |
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TableOfContents | Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Central American Transisthmian Histories, Literatures, and Cultures
CHAPTER 1. Costa Rican Grounds and the Founding of the Coffee Republics
CHAPTER 2. Nations Divided: U.S. Intervention, Banana Enclaves, and the Panama Canal
CHAPTER 3. The Power of Indigo: Testimonio, Historiography, and Revolution in Cuzcatl
CHAPTER 4. K’atun Turning in Greater Guatemala: Trauma, Impunity, and Diaspora
CHAPTER 5. The War at Home: Latina/o Solidarity and Central American Immigration
CHAPTER 6. “Departamento 15”: Salvadoran Transnational Migration and Narration
CHAPTER 7. Wasted Opportunities: Central America after the Revolutions
EPILOGUE. Weathering the Storm: Central America in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Frontmatter Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Central American Transisthmian Histories, Literatures, and Cultures -- CHAPTER 1. Costa Rican Grounds and the Founding of the Coffee Republics -- CHAPTER 2. Nations Divided: U.S. Intervention, Banana Enclaves, and the Panama Canal -- CHAPTER 3. The Power of Indigo: Testimonio, Historiography, and Revolution in Cuzcatlán -- CHAPTER 4. K'atun Turning in Greater Guatemala: Trauma, Impunity, and Diaspora -- CHAPTER 5. The War at Home: Latina/o Solidarity and Central American Immigration -- CHAPTER 6. "Departamento 15": Salvadoran Transnational Migration and Narration -- CHAPTER 7. Wasted Opportunities: Central America after the Revolutions -- EPILOGUE. Weathering the Storm: Central America in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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