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- American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature In Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Form and Genre
- Part II Networks
- Chapter 9 Modern Bigotry
- Chapter 10 “This Politick Salvage”
- Chapter 11 Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature
- Chapter 12 The Emigrationist Turn in Black Anti-Colonizationist Sentiment
- Chapter 13 The Black Child, the Colonial Orphan, and Early Republican Visions of Freedom
- Part III Methods for Living
- Index
Chapter 11 - Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature
from Part II - Networks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature In Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Form and Genre
- Part II Networks
- Chapter 9 Modern Bigotry
- Chapter 10 “This Politick Salvage”
- Chapter 11 Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature
- Chapter 12 The Emigrationist Turn in Black Anti-Colonizationist Sentiment
- Chapter 13 The Black Child, the Colonial Orphan, and Early Republican Visions of Freedom
- Part III Methods for Living
- Index
Summary
This essay focuses on the first two Spanish-language texts published in the United States: Santiago Puglia’s 1794 El desengaño del hombre (Man Undeceived) and the anonymous Reflexiones sobre el Comercio de España con sus Colonias en America, en tiempo de Guerra (1799). Read together, these works illustrate how exchange – economic, linguistic, and cultural – informs the beginnings of US Hispanophone literature and reveal how the logic of exchange reflects the uneasy transitions from colony to republic, monarchy to democracy, and agrarianism to commerce. Ultimately, the Hispanophone literature of the period reveals an undecidability between such terms that is itself indicative of both the literature and politics of the early nineteenth-century Americas.
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- American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 , pp. 188 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022