Book contents
- Decadence
- Decadence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Decadent Histories
- Chapter 1 Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics
- Chapter 2 British Decadence and Renaissance Italy
- Chapter 3 ‘Rather a Delicate Subject’
- Chapter 4 Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
- Chapter 5 Varieties of Decadent Religion
- Chapter 6 The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics
- Chapter 7 Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity
- Chapter 8 Decadence and Politics
- Chapter 9 Seeds of Discord
- Chapter 10 Decadent Poetics after Swinburne
- Chapter 11 Theatre and Decadence
- Chapter 12 ‘Restless Mystical Ardours’
- Chapter 13 Decadence in Painting
- Chapter 14 Decadent Poetry and Translation
- Chapter 15 Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence
- Chapter 16 Decadent America 1890–1930
- Chapter 17 Russian and Czech Decadence
- Chapter 18 A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence
- Chapter 19 Camp Modernism and Decadence
- Chapter 20 Making Decadence New
- Chapter 21 Writing Decadent Lives and Letters
- Chapter 22 Decadence in the Time of AIDS
- Index
Chapter 15 - Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- Decadence
- Decadence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Decadent Histories
- Chapter 1 Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics
- Chapter 2 British Decadence and Renaissance Italy
- Chapter 3 ‘Rather a Delicate Subject’
- Chapter 4 Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
- Chapter 5 Varieties of Decadent Religion
- Chapter 6 The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics
- Chapter 7 Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity
- Chapter 8 Decadence and Politics
- Chapter 9 Seeds of Discord
- Chapter 10 Decadent Poetics after Swinburne
- Chapter 11 Theatre and Decadence
- Chapter 12 ‘Restless Mystical Ardours’
- Chapter 13 Decadence in Painting
- Chapter 14 Decadent Poetry and Translation
- Chapter 15 Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence
- Chapter 16 Decadent America 1890–1930
- Chapter 17 Russian and Czech Decadence
- Chapter 18 A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence
- Chapter 19 Camp Modernism and Decadence
- Chapter 20 Making Decadence New
- Chapter 21 Writing Decadent Lives and Letters
- Chapter 22 Decadence in the Time of AIDS
- Index
Summary
Spanish American writers’ engagement with Decadence in the fin de siècle entailed a careful negotiation of ideas about their own region’s future and its historical evolution within the Western world. Their position regarding Decadence repeatedly turns to a discussion of the New World’s geopolitical and artistic position, keeping an eye on Spain’s decline in the global landscape of the fin de siècle. To illustrate these transatlantic negotiations, Blanco engages with the writing of several Spanish figures from the fin de siècle who dealt with Decadence’s controversial arrival in Spanish America. A central figure in this discussion is the Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío, spin doctor of modernismo and a principal recipient of the ‘Decadent’ label throughout the 1890s and beyond. A writer who moved across different urban centres from Spanish America to Europe, Darío was a prime theorist of new literary developments in the region. As Blanco argues, while modernismo took in Decadence’s poetic energy as well as its diverse artistic work ethic, it had to become something else to breathe new life in Spanish American letters.
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- DecadenceA Literary History, pp. 272 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020