FIRESIDE CHAT: Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite

18jan7:00 pm8:00 pmFIRESIDE CHAT: Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite Free

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Fireside Chat with Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges

Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite

Thursday, January 18, 2024
7:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Event | Free

For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism.

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January 18, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)

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