Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-16-2021

Embargo Period

8-16-2022

Publication Title

Atlantic Studies

Abstract

This essay considers the entanglement of race, gender, and imperialism in U.S. discourse on Evangelina Cisneros, a white Cuban woman imprisoned in a Havana jail during her country’s final War for Independence from Spain (1895–1898). I argue that, an event historically tied to the colony’s abolition of slavery, Cuban Independence in writings about Cisneros becomes discursively imbricated with the reconsolidation of white supremacy in the U.S. South following the Civil War. The study establishes a dialogue between U.S. discourse on the events published in the late 1890s – the articles on the affair that appeared in The New York Journal and the multi-authored book The Story of Evangelina Cisneros (1897) – and Southern white supremacist author Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s Trilogy of Reconstruction (1902–1907) in order to explore the ways in which the Evangelina Cisneros text network mobilizes racial and gender paradigms typically associated with post-Reconstruction Southern “Redeemer” thinking.

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

70

Last Page

86

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1778382

ISSN

1740-4649

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Atlantic Studies on February 16, 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1778382.

This article has an 18 month embargo and will be available for download on August 16, 2022.

Rights

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Atlantic Studies.

Genova, Thomas. “Traveling Tropes: Race and Reconstruction in The Story of Evangelina Cisneros.” Atlantic Studies 18.1 (March 2021): 70-86. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14788810.2020.1778382

It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”

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