Colonialism and Culture Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary
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"Colonialism and Culture is a tightly argued study of literary modernism in a socio-cultural context." - Mario J. Valdes" ... challenging and formidable ... " - Choice"This excellent monographic study about colonialism and culture is must reading for serious students of Latin America." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review
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.