Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire

408 Pages·2005·11 MB·English

by  Maria DeGuzman

Spain’s Long Shadow:
The Black Legend,
Off-Whiteness, and
Anglo-American Empire
MARÍA DEGUZMÁN
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
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The Black Legend, O -Whiteness, and
Anglo-American Empire
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Portions of chapter first appeared in “Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity
around the Spanish-American War (),” in Race and the Production of Modern American
Nationalism,ed. Reynolds J. Scott-Childress (New York: Taylor & Francis Books, ),–.
Copyright. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.
Portions of chapter first appeared in “Terrorism as Terrorific Mimesis in Floyd Salas’s
State of Emergency(),” in Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture,
ed. Nancy Lusignan Schultz (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, ),–.
Reprinted with permission.
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DeGuzmán, María.
Spain’s long shadow : the black legend, off-whiteness,
and Anglo-American empire / María DeGuzmán.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN---(alk. paper)—ISBN ---(pbk. : alk. paper)
. American literature—Spanish influences.. United States—Civilization—Spanish influences.
. Literature, Comparative—American and Spanish. . Literature, Comparative—Spanish and
American.. American literature—History and criticism. . Spain—Foreign public opinion,
American.. United States—Relations—Spain. . Spain—Relations—United States.
. Imperialism in literature. . Spaniards in literature. . Ethnicity in literature.
. Spain—In literature. . Race in literature. I. Title.
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For Elizabeth and Luis
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contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
. The Shadow of the Black Legend 
. Imperial Visions: Moor, Gypsy, and Indian 
. Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity
around the Spanish-American War 
. Sacred Bulls of Modernism 
. (Post)Modern Denaturalizations of Nationality 
. Afterlives of Empire 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank Daniel Aaron, José Amor y Vázquez, Lawrence
Buell, Jill Casid, Karen Encarnación, Margarita Estévez Abe, Marjorie
Garber, Mary Gaylord, Roland Greene, Graham Huggan, Debbie López,
Roxana Pagés-Rangel, Geoffrey Ribbans, Rennie Scott-Childress, Doris
Sommer, Jack Trumpbour, and the members across the years of the Amer-
ican Doctoral Colloquium (English Department, Harvard University), all
of whom read or listened to initial and later portions of this manuscript
and whose comments and suggestions I have tried to integrate into the
present work. I would like to express my many thanks to Sacvan Bercovitch
for his abiding belief in this project and to Luis Fernández-Cifuentes for
his insightful readings of the chapters. I am very appreciative of the Uni-
versity Research Council, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and
especially the English Department at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill for granting me research and study leave as well as financial
support to prepare this manuscript, among other things. In particular,
for their sound advice, I would like to thank Linda Wagner-Martin and
William L. Andrews. I am grateful for the archival and curatorial assistance
of Jennifer Brathovde, Becky Cape, Erika Dowell, Laura A. Foster, Jennifer
Hughes, Mary Ison, Ruth Janson, Claudia Jew, Francis Lapka, Danielle
Mann, Daniel Moulton, Lois Oglesby, Kristin Parker, Mario Pereira,
Vaughn Thibodeau, Donna VanLeer, Tessa Veazey, Nicholas Wharton,
and Danielle Zahaba. I would like to acknowledge the University of Min-
nesota Press, notably Doug Armato, Gretchen Asmussen, Adam Grafa,
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