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Article: Mikilistes and Modernistas: Taking Paris to the "Second Degree"
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- Comparative Literature
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- October 1, 2008
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"Si Paris no existiera, los escritores hispanoamericanos la habrÃan inventado."
(If Paris didn't exist, Spanish American writers would have invented it.)
- Cristóbal Pera, Modernistas en Paris
"Ici, nous sommes en terre étrangère. Le jugement dernier, c'est au pays. On nous attend là -bas, il n'est pas question d'y retourner les mains vides."
(Here, we are in a foreign land. The last judgment is in the home country. They are waiting for us there, it is out of the question to return there empty-handed.)
- Alain Mabanckou, Bleu blanc rouge
THIS ESSAY WILL EXAMINE texts from two moments of cultural transition wherein disenfranchised groups turn to a rhetorical and mythologized image of ...