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.

摘要

本文考虑了种族，性别和帝国主义在美国关于伊万杰利娜·西斯内罗斯（Evangelina Cisneros）的论述中的纠结，伊万格里纳·西斯内罗斯是古巴白人妇女，她在该国的最后一次独立战争中被囚禁在哈瓦那监狱（1895-1898年）。我认为，历史上与该殖民地废除了奴隶制有关的事件是，古巴内在关于西斯内罗斯（Cisneros）的著作中的独立性与内战后美国南方白人至上主义的巩固有冲突。该研究在美国关于1890年代末出版的事件的话语（《纽约日报》和多本著作《伊万杰利娜·西斯内罗斯的故事》（1897年）中出现的文章）与南方白人至上主义者托马斯之间建立了对话小迪克森重建三部曲（1902-1907），以探究Evangelina Cisneros文本网络动员通常与重建后南方“救赎者”思想相关的种族和性别范式的方式。