Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination -- I. The Culture of the Diaspora. 1. Exiles, Pilgrims, Wanderers: Migration in the Context of National Struggle. 2. Plaintive Song, Heroic Story: Nationalism and Immigrant Popular Culture. 3. Pillars of Fire: The Comparative Literatures of Immigrant Nationalism -- II. Nationalist Sensibility and American Expansionism. 4. Cuba Libre! Immigrant Versions of Spanish Tyranny, Cuban Rights, and American Power. 5. Windows on Imperialism: Nationalism, Race, and the Conquest of the Philippines -- Conclusion: The Diasporic Imagination in the Twentieth Century.
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