Justo Sierra O’Reilly and John L. Stephens
Translation, History, and Transnational Romanticisms in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8244161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ty West (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-96 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2019.1605982 |
| OpenAlex | W2947995544 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In this article, I explore the crossroads that unite two important nineteenth-century travel writers from the Americas: John L. Stephens who traveled south from the U.S. to the Yucatán peninsula, and Justo Sierra O’Reilly who traveled north from the Yucatán to Washington D.C. By focusing on two writers from the Americas, my goal is to examine how Romantic aesthetics and ideologies took on new shapes through cultural exchange within the region. More specifically, I study how these two travel writers articulated and came to terms with what Stephen Bann has identified as two fundamental aspects of the Romantic period. The first is the ‘remarkable enhancement of the consciousness of history’ (Bann Citation1995, 4) evident in the importance of popular literary genres like the historical novel. The second is a new accessibility to texts and information that incorporated large groups of readers and made historical information more available. While Stephens demonstrates an at times romantic fascination with indigenous history constructed through the analysis of the ruins he visits, Sierra O’Reilly’s translation, at every turn, critically engages Stephens's historical conclusions, revealing interlocking and contested notions of history in the Americas
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Consciousness · History of literature · Ideology · Indigenous · Literature · Peninsula · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Romance · Romanticism · Sociology · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
Incidents of travel in Yucatan /
Imperial Eyes
Skulls and Idols
Rebellion Now and Forever
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Romancing the Maya
Critical Passions
Mexican Travel Writing
The Brink of Freedom
Prescott's History Of The Conquest And Calderon de la Barca's Life In Mexico
Romanticism and the Rise of History
Strange Pilgrimages
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |