Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the battle for cultural identity in 20th-century Spain /
Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thrivin...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a tale of two modernities
- Mining the golden age: the Spanish avant-garde and visions of modernity
- The empire strikes back: Cervantes, enemy of the state
- A generational shift: riding away from the empire
- Anachronism as weapon and resistance (Quixotes left and right)
- Post tenebras spero lucem: attempts at counter-colonial modernity in exile
- Epilogue: humanism suspended: the reverberations of silence.