Colonialism and culture : Hispanic modernisms and the social imaginary / Iris M. Zavala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zavala, Iris M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Latin America.

Modernism (Literature).

Comparative literature.

Latin America.

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Literature and history--Latin America.

Literature and history.

Comparative literature--Spanish American and European.

Comparative literature--European and Spanish American.

Latin America--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]

Summary:

Iris Zavala argues that Hispanic modernism is an emancipatory narrativeof self-representation. Out of Cuba's struggles against Spanish and U.S.colonialism, modernism emerged among the Hispanic intelligentsia as an attempt tocreate a collective narrative rejecting colonial cultural patterns. Hispanic modernism crusaded for a cosmopolitanism opposed tocolonialism. The work of Jos Mart, Rub n Dar o, Valle-Incl n, Unamuno andJuli n del Casal rejects a hegemonic idea of progress and the imposition of alienpolitical and cultural practices. Through a poetics of negation, they generated arevolutionary social and artistic awakening that resulted in the unprecedentedcultural achievments of Hispanic modernism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253368618

OCLC:

24377010