Translating Spain to the United States during the Cuban War of Independence: Mary J. Serrano and the Associated Spanish and Cuban Press

• Ana Varela-Lago ^[1]
  1. [1] Northern Arizona University

     Northern Arizona University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Hispania, ISSN 0018-2133, Vol. 103, Nº 1, 2020, págs. 97-107
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines the life and work of Mary J. Serrano (1840-1923), a successful translator and popularizer of Spanish literature in late nineteenth-century United States. It provides a short biography of Serrano and focuses on her work for the Spanish Legation in in Washington DC during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98), a period of increasing anti-Spanish sentiment in the country. The article seeks to recover the figure of this important, yet largely unknown translator. Her biography also illuminates a number of trends that helped define this moment in history: the bourgeoning role of women as translators and authors, but also cultural mediators and engaged citizens; the diffusion and popularization of the emerging field of Hispanism in the United States; and the complex web of interactions and ethnic identities that shaped the immigrant experience in urban America.