The Politics of Spanish American 'Modernismo': By Exquisite Design

ISBN-13: 9780521572491 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str.

Gerard Aching; Enrique Pupo-Walker

Opis

The Politics of Spanish American "Modernismo" elucidates the professional and literary means through which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States. Gerard Aching argues that these turn-of-the-century men of letters were in fact responsible for the burgeoning role that intellectuals and writers had (and continue to have) in defining pan-Hispanicism. Aching's arguments contribute to current debates about modernity and the colonial/postcolonial condition in nineteenth-century Hispanic literatures.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Aching's book successfully raises the argument for considering the modernistas as the first to create a collective discourse around Spanish-American cultural identity.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. A reevaluation of the Modernistas' detachment; 2. The reino interior; 3. Poetry and the performance of cultural meaning: Darío's 'Salutación del optimista'; 4. Sculpting Spanish America: Rodó's Ariel; 5. Founding a transnational cultural literacy: the modernista literary reviews; 6. The 'excesses' of Spanish American modernismo; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography of works cited; Index.