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

By Gerard Aching

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521572495
• ISBN13: 9780521572491
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"