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Article: Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature.(Review)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Cathy L. Jrade. Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature. Austin. University of Texas Press. 1998. x + 193 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-292-74049-2 (74045-X paper).
The twentieth century has been an exceptionally fertile period in the literary history of Spanish America. Each of the movements that transformed the literary landscape-the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, the "Boom" of the 1950s and 1960s, and contemporary postmodernism-owes a major debt to the brief but enormously influential tendency known as modernismo, which arose toward the end of the 1870s and had run its course by about 1920. In her revisionist study Cathy L. Jrade ...