04257nam 2200601Ia 450 991078298650332120230721005244.00-292-79372-310.7560/719095(CKB)1000000000721835(OCoLC)646808255(CaPaEBR)ebrary10285586(SSID)ssj0000140303(PQKBManifestationID)11911780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140303(PQKBWorkID)10029706(PQKB)10411505(MiAaPQ)EBC3443396(OCoLC)318247340(MdBmJHUP)muse2189(Au-PeEL)EBL3443396(CaPaEBR)ebr10285586(DE-B1597)588786(OCoLC)1286808710(DE-B1597)9780292793729(EXLCZ)99100000000072183520080926d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDividing the Isthmus[electronic resource] Central American transnational histories, literatures, and cultures /by Ana Patricia RodríguezFirst edition.Austin :University of Texas Press,2009.1 online resource0-292-71909-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Central American Transisthmian histories, literatures, and cultures -- Costa Rican grounds and the founding of the coffee republics -- Nations divided : U.S. intervention, banana enclaves, and the Panama Canal -- The power of indigo : testimonio, historiography, and revolution in Cuzcatlán -- K'atun turning in greater Guatemala : trauma, impunity, and diaspora -- The war at home : Latina/o solidarity and Central American immigration -- "Departamento 15" : Salvadoran transnational migration and narration -- Wasted opportunities : Central America after the revolutions -- Epilogue: Weathering the storm : Central America in the twenty-first century.In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus—a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives. Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines. Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas. Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies.Central American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCentral AmericaHistoryCentral AmericaCivilizationCentral American literatureHistory and criticism.972.805Rodríguez Ana Patricia1963-1484285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782986503321Dividing the Isthmus3702868UNINA