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La Patria Perdida O Imaginada: Translating Teodoro Torres In "El Mexico De Afuera", Ethriam Cash Brammer
La Patria Perdida O Imaginada: Translating Teodoro Torres In "El Mexico De Afuera", Ethriam Cash Brammer
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
LA PATRIA PERDIDA O IMAGINADA: TRANSLATING TEODORO TORRES
IN "EL MÉXICO DE AFUERA"
by
ETHRIAM CASH BRAMMER
December 2011
Advisor: Dr. Renata Wasserman
Major: English
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
One resent result of the Recovery of the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project has been the "rediscovery" of the novel La patria perdida (1935), written by acclaimed Mexican journalist Teodoro Torres while in exile in the United States. This novel is a kind of Mexican-American Horacio Algiers tale, detailing the success story of Luis Alfaro, who is eventually able to create a utopian Mexican-American hacienda, called Buenavista, outside of Kansas …