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 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 achievments of Hispanic modernism.Zavala, Iris M. is the author of 'Colonialism and Culture Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary' with ISBN 9780253368614 and ISBN 0253368618.