On the move again
Tracking the 'Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Coleman Hutchison (0000-0001-9616-7152, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 423-440 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/147757007x228217 |
| OpenAlex | W1980260904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
The 1876 Civil War narrative, The Woman in Battle, narrates the chaotic life and times of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban-born, cross-dressing Confederate sympathizer, soldier, and spy. This essay argues that the Velazquez narrative is a restless text: one that moves dexterously and recurrently across lines of nation and region and remaps the American Civil War within a global system of immigration, foreign intervention, transnational capital, and competing nationalisms. Velazquez as narrator has a keen eye for the international aspects and implications of the war. Indeed, her narrative recapitulates and her rhetoric underscores internationalism, forcing readers to acknowledge the ways this bloody and harrowing conflict exceeded the provincial limits and logics of 'North versus South'. In all, Velazquez's awareness of a world outside of the United and Confederate States helps to disrupt the insularity of Civil War narrative convention and to tell the belated story of a Confederacy in and of the world
Adventure · Alliance · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Battle · Immigration · Internationalism (politics · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Reconstruction
Confederate Exiles in Venezuela
The Lost Colony of the Confederacy
Disarming the Nation
Conflict and Compromise
The Elusive Eden
They Fought Like Demons
Swindler, Spy, Rebel
Confederate Settlements in British Honduras
Admiral of the Amazon
When Did the Confederate States of America Free the Slaves
Confederate Cuba
The Economic Effects of the American Civil War
Canada and the United States
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |