LATINX SPEAKER SERIES – CARLOS NUGENT – Imagining Land and Latinidad in the Wake of the California Gold Rush

Date

January 31, 2023

Time

3:10 pm – 5:00 pm

Location

403 Kent Hall

To destabilize dominant accounts of the California Gold Rush, Latinx literary critics have celebrated the Spanish-speakers who settled in the region before it was a part of the US. However, as critics have illuminated these Californias/os, they have turned a blind eye to the Chilenas/os, Mexicanas/os, and other foreign-born Latinas/os who made up the majority of the area’s Spanish-
speaking population as early as 1850. By assembling a multilingual archive of novels and newspapers, this talk shows how these migrant Latinas/os shaped “imagined environments”—my term for the frameworks through which human groups represent, relate to, and reside in more-than-human worlds.

JAN, 31st, 2023, Tuesday, 3:10-5PM