Looking North : writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present / edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Muñoz.


Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.
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Notes:

  • 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 .
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Translated from the Spanish.

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