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Looking North : writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present

Title
Looking North : writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present / edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Muñoz.
ISBN
9780816529988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816529981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.
Physical Description
viii, 261 p. ; 23 cm.
Variant and related titles
Writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2012
Contents
The two Americas. Simón Bolívar / "The Angostura discourse" (selection, 1819); José Martí / "Our America" (1891); José Enrique Rodó / Ariel (selection, 1900); Manuel Baldomero Ugarte / "An open letter to the President of the United States" (1913); Gabriela Mistral / "The infantilism of the North American" (1944); Leopoldo Zea / "The culture of the two Americas" (1971); Salvador Allende / "Chile: address to the United Nations General Assembly" (1972); Irene Zea / "U.S. hegemony on the American continent" (1975); Octavio Paz, "Mexico and the United States: positions and counterpositions" (1978); Sergio Marras / "The first new days: a conversation with Roberto Fernández Retamar" (selection, 1991); Armando Roa / "The historic significance of the United States" (1997);
Mario Vargas Llosa, "A wall of lies" (2006)
Travelers from the South. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento / "Moral geography" (1847)
Ciro Alegría / "The race problem" (1941): Germán Arciniegas ? "English lessons" (1945); Luis Alberto Sánchez / "The first surprise" (1945)
Ernesto Cardenal / "A trip to New York" (1973); Víctor M. Espinosa / "We didn't go North to pick flowers" (1992);
Eduardo Galeano / "Mea culpa" (1992); Mario Vargas Llosa / "New York, New York" (2008)
The United States as literary theme. Rubén Darío / "To Roosevelt" (1905); Nicolás Guillén / Selected poems (1967); Gabriel García Márquez / One hundred years of solitude (selection, 1967); Pablo Neruda / Selected poems (1970, 1973); Mario Benedetti / "The weeping of Jimmy Swaggart" (1988); Esmeralda Santiago / "The American invasion of Macún" (selection, 1993); Christine Granados / "Inner view".
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