The Latino Nineteenth Century

This critical anthology, edited by Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán, sets out to incorporate Latino nineteenth-century literary production into the corpus of American literature by providing essays on Latino works that have been “buried” by English-language literature, as Alemán argues in the book's preface (p. vii). The anthology includes essays that focus on neglected writings by people of Latin American descent who became short-term or long-term residents of the United States. Many of these Latin American writers, though residing in the United States, continued to focus on their homelands and did not write about U.S. Latino populations. An example is the Guatemalan José de Irisarri, who, after traveling throughout Latin America and serving as Guatemalan ambassador to the United States, remained in America for an extended period. An undoubtedly important writer and a critic of U.S. imperialism, especially in Central America, de Irisarri was, however, not a U.S. Latino writer

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