Via Twitter earlier today --@Chi_Humanities / kw
http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/History/2011f-The-Printing-Press-and-Latino-Identity.aspx#
Chicago Humanities Festival
THE PRINTING PRESS AND LATINO IDENTITY
--- Dr. RAUL CORONADO
TICKET SCHEDULE AND PRICING:
703: Sat, Nov. 12 12:00 - 1:00 PM
General Admission: $5.00
Teachers and Students: FREE
Location:
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60610
"How can technology help create a culture? University of Chicago professor Raul
Coronado is answering this question through his study of Latino identity in the
United States. In May 1808 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the
Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world, comprising the Spanish peninsula,
Spanish America, and the Philippines, was transformed forever. Hispanics turned
to the rapidity and reach of the press, using it to advocate for their visions
of a new modern world, to create a public sphere, and to contest racialization.
Coronado draws on pertinent examples to tell a story of the historical accidents
and reversals that led Spanish-Americans to imagine themselves not as sovereigns
of new Hispanic nations but as members of a far-flung culture united by modern
communication. In this program, Coronado will focus on the genesis of this
identity—the 1850s and the rise of Spanish-language newspapers."
ABOUT RAUL CORONADO
Raul Coronado's teaching and research interests are in Latina/o literary and
cultural history, from the colonial period to the 1940s, with an emphasis on
rethinking the literature of the Americas in a transnational, hemispheric
framework. His teaching focuses on the historical specificities of the
U.S.-Mexico border, while simultaneously providing new insights into the
literary and cultural legacies of modernity and colonialism in the Americas.
Coronado earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2004.
This program is presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
Arte Y Vida Chicago is the media sponsor for this event.
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Karen Weaver, MLS, Electronic Resources Statistician, Collection Management, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: weaverk@duq.edu / Gmail: melvil4u@gmail.com
--Member, ALA Library History Round Table (LHRT) Membership & Outreach Committee (MOC)