Colonialism and Culture Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary

Name: Colonialism and Culture Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary
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ISBN: 9780253368614

ISBN-10: 0253368618

ISBN-13: 9780253368614

Edition: 1992

Authors: Iris M. Zavala

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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 JosA(c) MartA-, RubA(c)n DarA-o, Valle-InclAn, Unamuno and JuliAn 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…

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List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Open-ended Text of Modernity



The Dialogical Social Imaginary and Self-Representation



To Be Modern at the Turn of the Century



Lyric Poetry and the Constitution of the Self



The Struggle for Signs



The Dialogical Cultural Signs



Cultural Spheres and Resistance



Peninsular Moderns and the Shattered Mirror



Heterology and Popular Culture in Modernity



Other Modernist Open-ended Beginnings


(In) Conclusion: Decolonization and Social Identities


Notes


Works Cited


Index