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Lazo, Rodrigo. "Filibustering an Empire: Transamerican Writing and U.S. Expansionism," English Department, University of Maryland, College Park, August 1998.
Following the U.S.- Mexico War, paramilitary groups inspired by the ideology of manifest destiny attempted to seize territories in Central America and the Caribbean. These soldiers of fortune, known as “filibusters,” provide a historical departure for this study of nineteenth-century writing in the broader context of the Americas. My dissertation argues that in conjunction with filibustering movements writers deployed poems, newspaper articles, and travel pieces in an attempt to seize land both physically and metaphorically. Given the hemispheric dimension of U.S. expansionism, these writings circulated from U.S. cities to Cuba or Nicaragua and back as they were written, published, and distributed, a process I call “transamerican.” By grounding my study in historical contingencies that did not respect national borders, I focus on Cirilo Villaverde and other Cubans who published their work in the United States as well as on Martin Delany, Herman Melville, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
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