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Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant

Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant

Smith, Noel M.
Gálvez Y. Delmonte, Wenceslao
Smith, Noel M.

Hardcover

Series: New World Diasporas

Biographies GeneralImmigration & RefugeesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813066638
ISBN13: 9780813066639
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Oct 27 2020
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1896, Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte fled the violence of Cuba's war for independence and settled in Tampa. He soon made his new home the focus of a work of costumbrismo, the Spanish-language genre built on closely observing the everyday manners and customs of a place.

Translated here into English, Gálvez's narrative mixes evocative descriptions with charming commentary to bring to life the early Cuban exile communities in Ybor City and West Tampa. The writer's sharp eye finds the local characters, the barber shops and electric streetcars, the city landmarks and new Cuban enclaves. One day, Gálvez offers his thoughts on the pro-independence activities of community leaders like Martín Herrera and Fernando Figuerdo. On another, our exiled bourgeois intellectual author wryly recounts his new life as a door-to-door salesman and lector reading aloud to workers in a cigar factory.

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