Modernism and Its Margins - 9781138879522

Taylor & Francis

This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but from this new fin de si cle as well, a revisiting of modernity and its cultural artifacts from that same postmodernity. Modernism and Its Margins is an attempt at introducing different perspectives and examples in the theoretical debate, redefine dominant assumptions of what modernism-or margins-mean in our historical juncture. > On Modernism from the Periphery, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga * The Industrial Imaginary of Modernity: The Totalizing Gaze, Iris M. Zavala * A Modernization That Holds Us Back: Culture under the Neoconservative Regression, N\nstor Garc'a Canclini * Rethinking the Theory of the Avant-Garde from the Periphery, George Yoedice * The Limits of Modernity in Latin American Poetry, Alvaro\nSalvador * Seven Islands in Search of an Author: The Canary Islands Avant-Ga