Colonialism and Culture - Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Iris M. Zavala
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780253368614
• ISBN: 978-0-253-36861-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 551 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous