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T1 Race, slavery, and liberalism in Lorenzo de Zavala’s "Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de América"
A1 Kinnally, Cara Anne
K1 Mexican literature
K1 Liberalism
K1 Republicanism
K1 Slavery
K1 Colonialism
K1 Civilization/barbarism
K1 Travel narratives
K1 Relatos de viaje
K1 Literatura mexicana
K1 Lorenzo de Zavala
K1 Liberalismo
K1 Republicanismo
K1 Esclavitud
K1 Colonialismo
K1 Civilización/barbarie
K1 Arte
K1 Art
K1 Historia
K1 History
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB In late 1829, Lorenzo de Zavala, an influential Mexican statesman, writer, and editor, fled Mexico and traveled to the United States as a political exile. In 1834 he published Viage a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América [Journey to the United States of North America], one of the earliest known meditations on U.S. democracy. While ostensibly written about the United States, Viage is directed at his fellow Mexicans and is intended as a tool for learning about democratic ideals and their potential realizationin Mexico. In this article, I examine Zavala’s ideas about degeneracy and barbarism as presented through his discussion of slavery and slave-like imitation in both the U.S. and Mexico. Throughout his narrative, Zavala points to different types of slavery as part of each country’s past and present that continue to impede the realization of republican ideals and national democratic projects. I argue that Zavala uses a comparative mode,highlighting the similarities between Mexican and U.S. degeneracy. He thus presents both countries as young republics embroiled in similar fights for “civilization” as part of a hemispheric community moving away from barbarism and towards a broadlyAmerican concept of “progress.”
SN 1889-5611
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24841
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24841
LA spa
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024