• The Female Colossus in the New World: Innovations on a Classical Motif in José Martí’s Modernismo

    Author(s):
    Tyler Fisher (see profile) , Jenni Lehtinen
    Date:
    2016
    Subject(s):
    Cuban literature, Literature, Modern, Caribbean literature, Feminist criticism
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Modernism, Modernist literature
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/w3ty-md35
    Abstract:
    This study considers how European modernism's preoccupation with nationhood is prefigured in Latin American modernismo. By examining José Martí's use of the colossus image, this chapter places classical reception at the center of how we define the limits of modernism's origins.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335493_003
    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2016
    Book Title:
    Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde
    Author/Editor:
    Adam J Goldwyn; James Nikopoulos
    Page Range:
    19 - 37
    ISBN:
    9789004276505
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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