A01=Jesus Torrecilla
Author_Jesus Torrecilla
Benito Perez Galdes
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hegemony
Mariano Jose de Larra
Miguel de Unamuno
Product details
- ISBN 9780807892572
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 150 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1996
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a foreign influence. The double movement of imitation and appropriation generates an original hybrid literature that demonstrates the decisive importance of social identity in the configuration of literary works.
