Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Biographic Data
| ID | 286398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Silva Gruesz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten Silva |
| FAMILY NAME | Gruesz |
| SIGNATURE | GRUESZ K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Handwriting in Early America: A Media History
List, Assemblage, Interruption: Migrant Literature Against Story
Building on the centrality of translation theory in literary studies, this essay makes the case for the utility of literature in understanding the experience of migration. Rather than assuming that this means narrative fiction or nonfiction, it explores arguments against narrative. Using frameworks developed by Maria Mäkelä, Hanna Meretoja, and Andrew Abbott, it argues that a story-critical, nonnarrative approach can better illuminate momentary e…
Sexo
AA's Alphabet
Planetary Longings
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
"Poor Eliza" on the Border
"Poor Eliza" on the Border Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) No human is illegal. The slogan, seen on countless protest signs, refutes the nativist rhetoric that turned "illegal" into a noun signifying criminal nonpersonhood. In the figure of the migrant mother, perilously journeying across the border or hiding from immigration officers in a sanctuary church, Stowe's "Poor Eliza" reappears in altered form: a kind of "Pobre Elisa." In the portrait of the…
The Errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migration’s Intention
Unsettlers and Speculators
Considering that it was summertime, the weather in New England was puzzlingly cold. Nonetheless, the men in the seabeaten wooden ship offered thanks, in the Protestant fashion, for the bounty of fresh provisions: oysters and seals; vast herds of deer, tule elk, and pronghorn. Mutual curiosity informed their encounters with the people they met. The English admired their extraordinary basketwork, their shell ornaments, their headpieces of brilliant…
Alien Speech, Incorporated: On the Cultural History of Spanish in the US
Over six million people file into US classrooms each year with the aim of learning Spanish. They are met by a dazzling array of textbooks, videos, interactive software, and monetized online resources targeted not only at tuition-paying consumers, but also at a substantial, if uncountable, number of learners outside the formal space of the classroom: the ambitious self-teachers and brusher-uppers who are also served by this segment of the multibil…
What Was Latino Literature?
My substitution in the hoary formulation what was x? must seem perverse. isn't latino literature in the united states a newcomer among subfields—a recent entry on the roster of MLA book prizes, a fast-growing site of knowledge production, faculty lines, and institutional visibility? How could that field of the future—propelled by a demographic surge—be already a thing of the past? It is to worry this commonsensical temporality of Latino issues th…
Response to Jonathan Freedman
It is mightily refreshing to bypass the usual hand-wringing about the relationship between and studies that has characterized so many ponderous conference sessions in recent years. Just a decade ago, David Goldstein-Shirley titled his review essay on this topic with a tense rhetorical question: Ethnic Studies, or American Studies vs. Ethnic Studies? While that tension may never be resolved, it has substantially evaporated, and Jonathan Freedman b…
Lexical Snacks at the Citizen Restaurant: A Response to Vicki Ruiz
Lexical Snacks at the Citizen Restaurant:A Response to Vicki Ruiz Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried into a lava-flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. —Lafcadio Hearn, writing in 1880 as he emba…
Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (review)
Reviewed by: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire Kirsten Silva Gruesz María DeGuzmán, Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2005. xxxiii + 372 pp. Spain's Long Shadow is a bold and at times brilliant study, although not all of its arguments are developed with equal persuasiveness. Ambitious both in its two-century chronological ra…
Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, & Borders
The Gulf of Mexico System and the "Latinness" of New Orleans
Journal Article The Gulf of Mexico System and the “Latinness” of New Orleans Get access Kirsten Silva Gruesz Kirsten Silva Gruesz Teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz and is at work on a cultural history of Spanish in the US and a book on the Gulf system Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 18, Issue 3, Fall 2006, Pages 468–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajl009 …
Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Utopia Latina: The Ordinary Seaman in Extraordinary Times
As a discipline, Latino Studies bases its claim to significance on the imminent transformation of Latinos into the "majority minority" in the United States: a claim that is proleptic in nature, yet untheorized as such. This essay seeks to contribute to a philosophy of Latino history by exploring the phenomenon of "anticipatory consciousness," as described by Bloch and Benjamin, in Francisco Goldman's 1997 novel The Ordinary Seaman, pointing out i…
Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing
Canon 205 NOTES 213 WORKS CITED 255 INDEX 279
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Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing
Canon 205 NOTES 213 WORKS CITED 255 INDEX 279
Utopia Latina: The Ordinary Seaman in Extraordinary Times
As a discipline, Latino Studies bases its claim to significance on the imminent transformation of Latinos into the "majority minority" in the United States: a claim that is proleptic in nature, yet untheorized as such. This essay seeks to contribute to a philosophy of Latino history by exploring the phenomenon of "anticipatory consciousness," as described by Bloch and Benjamin, in Francisco Goldman's 1997 novel The Ordinary Seaman, pointing out i…
The Gulf of Mexico System and the "Latinness" of New Orleans
Journal Article The Gulf of Mexico System and the “Latinness” of New Orleans Get access Kirsten Silva Gruesz Kirsten Silva Gruesz Teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz and is at work on a cultural history of Spanish in the US and a book on the Gulf system Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 18, Issue 3, Fall 2006, Pages 468–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajl009 …
Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (review)
Reviewed by: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire Kirsten Silva Gruesz María DeGuzmán, Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2005. xxxiii + 372 pp. Spain's Long Shadow is a bold and at times brilliant study, although not all of its arguments are developed with equal persuasiveness. Ambitious both in its two-century chronological ra…
Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, & Borders
Lexical Snacks at the Citizen Restaurant: A Response to Vicki Ruiz
Lexical Snacks at the Citizen Restaurant:A Response to Vicki Ruiz Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried into a lava-flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. —Lafcadio Hearn, writing in 1880 as he emba…
What Was Latino Literature?
My substitution in the hoary formulation what was x? must seem perverse. isn't latino literature in the united states a newcomer among subfields—a recent entry on the roster of MLA book prizes, a fast-growing site of knowledge production, faculty lines, and institutional visibility? How could that field of the future—propelled by a demographic surge—be already a thing of the past? It is to worry this commonsensical temporality of Latino issues th…
Response to Jonathan Freedman
It is mightily refreshing to bypass the usual hand-wringing about the relationship between and studies that has characterized so many ponderous conference sessions in recent years. Just a decade ago, David Goldstein-Shirley titled his review essay on this topic with a tense rhetorical question: Ethnic Studies, or American Studies vs. Ethnic Studies? While that tension may never be resolved, it has substantially evaporated, and Jonathan Freedman b…
Alien Speech, Incorporated: On the Cultural History of Spanish in the US
Over six million people file into US classrooms each year with the aim of learning Spanish. They are met by a dazzling array of textbooks, videos, interactive software, and monetized online resources targeted not only at tuition-paying consumers, but also at a substantial, if uncountable, number of learners outside the formal space of the classroom: the ambitious self-teachers and brusher-uppers who are also served by this segment of the multibil…
Unsettlers and Speculators
Considering that it was summertime, the weather in New England was puzzlingly cold. Nonetheless, the men in the seabeaten wooden ship offered thanks, in the Protestant fashion, for the bounty of fresh provisions: oysters and seals; vast herds of deer, tule elk, and pronghorn. Mutual curiosity informed their encounters with the people they met. The English admired their extraordinary basketwork, their shell ornaments, their headpieces of brilliant…
The Errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migration’s Intention
"Poor Eliza" on the Border
"Poor Eliza" on the Border Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) No human is illegal. The slogan, seen on countless protest signs, refutes the nativist rhetoric that turned "illegal" into a noun signifying criminal nonpersonhood. In the figure of the migrant mother, perilously journeying across the border or hiding from immigration officers in a sanctuary church, Stowe's "Poor Eliza" reappears in altered form: a kind of "Pobre Elisa." In the portrait of the…
The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Planetary Longings
Sexo
AA's Alphabet
Handwriting in Early America: A Media History
List, Assemblage, Interruption: Migrant Literature Against Story
Building on the centrality of translation theory in literary studies, this essay makes the case for the utility of literature in understanding the experience of migration. Rather than assuming that this means narrative fiction or nonfiction, it explores arguments against narrative. Using frameworks developed by Maria Mäkelä, Hanna Meretoja, and Andrew Abbott, it argues that a story-critical, nonnarrative approach can better illuminate momentary e…
History (14 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)