...This chapter takes as its subject a group of twentieth-century Argentine texts that examine the realities of Latin America after independence. This was a critical period when leaders pursuing civilizing agendas pushed up against their own heterogeneous populations and the powerful British empire...

...This chapter places race at the center of an analysis of textile employment patterns across the twentieth century. Based on interviews with African American textile workers at a specific historical moment, namely, the years immediately after the legal consequences of Plessy v. Ferguson...

...This chapter gives a brief outline of Maltese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fall of the Order of the Knights of Saint John provided a logical point at which to conclude two hundred years of Maltese maritime history, and is considered to be ancillary to the study...

...Chapter 3 situates Edith Wharton’s guidebook The Writing of Fiction within a culture of advice that traverses the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The essay argues that Wharton’s text formulates relational, comparative aesthetics that place contemporary modernist...

... the discursive structures that define Dominican nationalism in twentieth-century Dominican literature and twentieth-century Dominican poetry as fundamentally anti-black and anti-Haitian. Cartagena Portalatín Aída Transnationalism Trujillo Rafael Glissant Edouard United States Antihaitianism Nationalism...

... the socioracial context of early twentieth-century Cuba, concluding that, while they were more advantaged than other working class laborers of color—due to their status as British subjects and their knowledge of English at a time of dramatic U.S. economic expansion—they nonetheless had to confront the harsh...

...This chapter is a meditation on the philosophical wagers and aporia of the historicist opus of Jorge Basadre Grohmann (1903–1980), perhaps Peru's most brilliant historical thinker. Although many gifted historians graced the stage of twentieth-century Peruvian letters, Jorge Basadre was clearly...

... that developed across the twentieth century. The study begins with an analysis of a moment of explicit violence at the end of the nineteenth century, an event known as the Lattimer Massacre, in which as many as nineteen immigrant miners were shot by a posse of local businessmen. From this touchstone, material...

...The film archive that has sought to preserve the filmic world of the twentieth century is a project that is as nearly complicated as modernity itself. While critics and theorists have necessarily looked to cinema as a way to make sense of temporal and spatial shifting taking place in modernity...

... from the British Empire in the late eighteenth century, the emergence of a vision bright with expectations of a glorious future, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century steps that brought dramatically expanded power (even hegemony) in the international arena. More than a century of interaction between...

...This chapter is about fictions written on the topic of the Amazon. The chapter's reading of these novels aims to bring into the foreground the social and economic repercussions of extractive economies and infrastructure construction over the course of the twentieth century. The Amazon basin has had...

... precursor has largely overshadowed its obvious conjuration of the deep-seated prejudices against Afro-Cuban carnival celebrations and related cultural manifestations that had led to their official banning during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this chapter it is demonstrated how “La comparsa...

... as Guillén's reaction to the bans imposed on Afro-Cuban comparsas in the twentieth century. The chapter also analyses while reading the poem that the act of the killing of the snake in the poem cannot only be understood as a symbolic annihilation of traditional carnival comparsas...

...The goal of this book is nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. The book focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and examines why scholars have generally overlooked that fact. It argues that writers...

...This chapter focuses on late-twentieth-century developments and illustrates the advance of a totally new kind of evangelical fiction stimulated by the Left Behind series. Although the genre of this series is science fiction, they and many novels like them are rooted in a literal interpretation...

... community war camp reservation engagement history twentieth century In the early twentieth century, anthropologists and journalists began to bring pictures and video from Florida of “forgotten Indians,” the Seminole. These documents and the writings that went with them spoke of survivors keeping...

... through both dictatorial regimes and transnational networks Dominican women built the foundations of a solid and practical women's movement. In addition to contributing to both the longevity of authoritarian leadership and its eventual demise, their efforts situate squarely the rise of late twentieth...

... later in history. The third inquiry traces the development of soft forms of social control and coercion across the longue durée of the twentieth century. Specifically, it asks how vertically integrated economic and governmental structures such as neoliberalism and governmentality which serve...

...The structural transformations of deindustrialization have marked the second half of the twentieth century and this century. Not only has pressure to stem the loss of business and manufacturing produced drastic urban policies, these strategies have prioritized and incentivized business and its...