Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Black Legend, Hispanicism, and the Emergence of National Identity in the Early United States
1. Joel Barlow’s The Vision of Columbus and The Columbiad: US National Identity and Spain
2. James Fenimore Cooper’s Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: Realism and Hispanicism
3. Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” as Critique of Hispanicist Exceptionalism: Cosmopolitanism and Ironizing Identity
Part II. Hispanicism and the Case of Cuba
4. Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita: Cuba and US National Identity
5. José Antonio Saco’s Antiannexationist Essays: Cuba, Hispanicism, and National Identity
Epilogue: The Hispanicist Forebears of 1898
Notes
Works Cited
Index