Modernism and its Margins

Ed. Anthony Geist and José Monleón 
Examines the prevailing notions that underlie most theoretical paradigms about modernism and how those paradigms fail to account for Spanish and, especially, Latin American expressions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Modernism and Its Margins: Rescripting Hispanic Modernism

Anthony L. Geist and José B. Monleón

Part I. The Problematics of Modernism

  1. On Modernism from the Periphery

    Carlos Blanco Aguinaga

  2. The Industrial Imaginary of Modernity: The “Totalizing” Gaze

    Iris M. Zavala

  3. A Modernizing That Holds Us Back: Culture under the Neoconservative Regression

    Néstor García Canclini

  4. Rethinking the Theory of the Avant-Garde from the Periphery

    George Yúdice

  5. The Limits of Modernity in Latin American Poetry

    Álvaro Salvador

  6. “Seven Islands in Search of an Author”: The Canary Islands Avant-Garde

    Jacqueline Cruz

    Part II. Modernists from the Margins

  7. Gender and Modernist Discourse: Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Dulce Dueño

    Susan Kirkpatrick

  8. Buñuel: A Cinematographic Impugnment of Modernity/Modernism/Avant-gardism and Other Options

    Víctor Fuentes

  9. Recycling the Popular: Lorca, Lorquismo, and the Culture Industry

    Anthony L. Geist

  10. Cultural Liaisons in American Literatures

    Guido A. Podestá

  11. Brazilian Modernism: An Idea Out of Place?

    Randal Johnson

  12. Counterhegemonic Subjectivities in César Vallejo and Oswald de Andrade

    Leslie Bary

  13. Borges: Tradition and the Avant-Garde

    Beatriz Sarlo

  14. “Dangerous Southern Islands”: Modern Aesthetics as Anaesthetics in Carpentier’s The Lost Steps and Borges’s “The South”

    Santiago Colás

  15. El siglo de las luces: Modernism and Epic

    Neil Larsen

Afterword: A Design for Modernity in the Margins

René Jara