Colonialism and Culture

Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary

von Iris M. Zavala

256 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• ISBN: 9780253368614
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1992
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press