Colonialism and Culture: Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary

✍ Scribed by Iris M. Zavala

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Edition: 1st Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Iris Zavala argues that Hispanic modernism is an emancipatory narrative of self-representation. Out of Cuba's struggles against Spanish and U.S. colonialism, modernism emerged among the Hispanic intelligentsia as an attempt to create a collective narrative rejecting colonial cultural patterns.

Hispanic modernism crusaded for a cosmopolitanism opposed to colonialism. The work of José Martí, Rubén Darío, Valle-Inclán, Unamuno and Julián del Casal rejects a hegemonic idea of progress and the imposition of alien political and cultural practices. Through a poetics of negation, they generated a revolutionary social and artistic awakening that resulted in the unprecedented cultural achievments of Hispanic modernism.

✦ Subjects

Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;Modernism;Movements & Periods;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;Caribbean & Latin American;Regional & Cultural;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;Social Sciences;Children’s Studies;Communication & Media Studies;Criminology;Customs & Traditions;Demography;Disaster Relief;Emigration & Immigration;Folklore & Mythology;Gender Studies;Gerontology;Holidays;Human Geography;Human Sexuality;Library & Information Science;Linguistic

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