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A World Not To Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
Raúl Coronado
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A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. A World Not to Come focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World. The geographic locale that became Texas changed sovereignty four times, from Spanish colony to Mexican republic to Texan republic and finally to a U.S. state. Following the trail of manifestos, correspondence, histories, petitions, and periodicals, Raúl Coronado goes to the writings of Texas Mexicans to explore how they began the slow process of viewing the world as no longer being a received order but a produced order. Through reconfigured publics, they debated how best to remake the social fabric even as they were caught up in a whirlwind of wars, social upheaval, and political transformations. Yet, while imagining a new world, Texas Mexicans were undergoing a transformation from an elite community of “civilizing” conquerors to an embattled, pauperized, racialized group whose voices were annihilated by war. In the end, theirs was a world not to come. Coronado sees in this process of racialization the birth of an emergent Latino culture and literature.
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Cover
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Half Title
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Note on Translations
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Introduction
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Divergent Revolutionary Genealogies
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The Traumatic Origins of the Modern World
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A History of Latino Textuality
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Disenchantment
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Becoming Latino
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A Spiral Historical Narrative
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I. Imagining New Futures
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1. Anxiously Desiring the Nation: The Skepticism of Scholasticism
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The Beginning of the End
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Provincial Education
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The Scholastic Episteme
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Skepticism in the Eastern Interior Provinces of New Spain
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Imagining the Nation
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2. “Oh! How Much I Could Say!” Imagining What a Nation Could Do
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Voyage to the United States
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Seeing a New Country
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Admiring the Well-Being of the Nation
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Struggling to Articulate the Sublime
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II. Pursuing Reform and Revolution
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3. Seeking the Pueblo’s Happiness: Reform and the Discourse of Political Economy
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The Need to Reform the Monarchy
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The Discourse of Political Economy as the Vehicle for Greater Happiness
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The Shifting Ideologies of Mercantilism to Free-Trade Capitalism
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The Commercial Interests of Philadelphia’s Early Spanish Diplomats
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Early U.S. Hispanic Publications, the Critique of Mercantilism, and the Common Good
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Epistemic Shift
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4. From Reform to Revolution: Print Culture and Expanding Social Imaginaries
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Communication Networks
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Initial Ruptures
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The Demise of the Hispanic Monarchy and the Birth of the Modern World
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Print Culture and the Eruption of the Public Sphere
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Reconfiguring Time and Space
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III. Revolutionizing the Catholic Past
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5. Seduced by Papers: Revolution (as Reformation) in Spanish Texas
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Modern Tempests
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On the Spanish Texas–Louisiana Border
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Revolution as End of the World
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Revolution as Seduction
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From Patriarchal Respect to Reciprocal Love
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Alone with the Hurricane
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6. “We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas”: The Philosophy and Brute Reality of Independence
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Reading Revolutionary Broadsheets Aloud
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The Broadsheet’s Content
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Francisco Suárez and the Catholic Corpus Mysticum
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Revolutionary Catholic Visions of the Modern Political World
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Indigenous Literacies
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Catholic Republican Government
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War and Terror
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IV. The Entrance of Life Into History
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7. “To the Advocates of Enlightenment and Reason”: From Subjects to Citizens
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From Spanish Defeat to Mexican Independence
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Writing and the Word of the Sovereign
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Printing and the Making of Citizens in Postindependence Texas
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Caring for the Social Body
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8. “Adhering to the New Order of Things”: Newspapers, Publishing, and the Making of a New Social Imaginary
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Forced Peace
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Interfacing with Writing and Print Culture
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The Founding of Spanish-Language Newspapers
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Producing a New Social Imaginary
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Reconfigured Publics
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A New Temporality
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9. “The Natural Sympathies That Unite All of Our People”: Political Journalism and the Struggle against Racism
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Putting Pen to Political Work
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Xenophobia and Anti-Mexican Violence
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Representing Tejano Interests in the 1856 Election
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Texas and the Gulf of Mexico Network
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Reconfigured Imagined Communities
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Racialization and Colonization
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Conclusion
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Surrounding Oneself with the Beauty of Life
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A History of Writing, a Search for Presence
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Appendixes: Transcriptions and Translations
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1. José Antonio Gutiérrez de Lara, “Americanos” (Proclamation, 1811; translation)
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2. José Álvarez de Toledo, Jesús, María, y José (Philadelphia, 1811; translation)
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3. Governing Junta of Béxar, “We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas” (San Antonio, Texas, April 6, 1813; transcription and translation)
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4. Anonymous, “Remembrance of the Things That Took Place in Béxar in 1813 under the Tyrant Arredondo” (transcription and translation)
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Notes
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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- 9780674073937 (ebook)