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Chapter 11 - Converging Americas

New Orleans in Spanish-Language and Latina/o/x Literary Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

By
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Edited by
T. R. Johnson
T. R. Johnson
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
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Summary

The exceptionalism of New Orleans from the perspective of the United States is reversed when considered from the perspective of major cities along the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, cities that, as New Orleans once did, formed part of the Spanish empire. Though this legacy has not been foregrounded in recent decades the way the city’s ties to France have been, major literary activity in Spanish has been associated with New Orleans since the career of Eusebio Gómez in the 1840s, perhaps reaching a peak in the first decades of the twentieth century with the rise of the New Orleans–based magazine, El Mercurio, which served as an important incubator of Modernism in the Spanish-speaking world.

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SpainSpanish-speaking New OrleansEusebio GomezEl MercurioHondurasHavanaLatinidadEl PatriaMexican–American WarTulane UniversityUnited Fruit Company
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New Orleans
A Literary History
 , pp. 137 - 147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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