Article: Mikilistes and Modernistas: Taking Paris to the "Second Degree"

"Si Paris no existiera, los escritores hispanoamericanos la habrían 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 ...

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