LEADER 04257nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910782986503321 005 20230721005244.0 010 $a0-292-79372-3 024 7 $a10.7560/719095 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721835 035 $a(OCoLC)646808255 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10285586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11911780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029706 035 $a(PQKB)10411505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443396 035 $a(OCoLC)318247340 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443396 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10285586 035 $a(DE-B1597)588786 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808710 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292793729 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721835 100 $a20080926d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDividing the Isthmus$b[electronic resource] $eCentral American transnational histories, literatures, and cultures /$fby Ana Patricia Rodri?guez 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a0-292-71909-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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 Cuzcatla?n -- 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aCentral American literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aCentral America$xHistory 607 $aCentral America$xCivilization 615 0$aCentral American literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a972.805 700 $aRodri?guez$b Ana Patricia$f1963-$01484285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782986503321 996 $aDividing the Isthmus$93702868 997 $aUNINA