Tides of Progress

Ana Rodríguez Navas is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She is author of Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature (2018).Peter Hulme is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at University of Essex, UK. His publications include The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919 (2019) and Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: The Revolutionary Life and Selected Writings of W. A. Domingo (2025; with Leslie James).

Tides of Progress demonstrates the richness of periodicals as an archive of multilingual hemispheric exchanges that both reflected on modernity and in some sense produced it. This edited collection includes the best of both worlds: deep dives into particular periodicals and a sweeping scope of hemispheric comparativism through key concepts.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors Introduction: "Struggle and Progress": The Rise of Anglo-Hispanic Print CultureAna Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago, USA and Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK1. The Dream of the Colossus: The War of 1898 in the Panamanian Liberal PressDennis Hogan, Harvard University, USA2. Quackery, or the Dark Side of US Modernity in Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires, 1898-1906) Martín L. Gaspar, Bryn Mawr College, USA3. H. G. Wells Goes South: Tablada, Ruelas, and Translations of ProgressMaría del Pilar Blanco, University of Oxford, UK4. The “Spanish-American Number” of Others: Vanguard of Pan-American Poetry and American ModernismJonathan Cohen, Independent Scholar, USA5. Bohemia: Imagining a Modern Nation for the Cuban Middle Classes (1908-1914)Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College, USA6. “The Beast Has Smelled Blood”: Early Cinema and the Press in Puerto RicoAna Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago, USA7. The Promise of Mexico: Survey Graphic (May 1924)Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK8. Publishing “Imported Fruit”: Idella Purnell’s Palms and Anglo-Hispanic Poetic ExchangeLouise Kane, University of Central Florida, USA9. A. A. Schomburg’s ‘Black Spain’ in Caribbean HarlemSusan Gillman, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA10. West Indian Review, (Anti-)Nationalism, and Pan-Caribbean LiteratureRaphael Dalleo, Bucknell University, USANotesSelect BibliographyIndex