{"product_id":"inverted-conquest-alejandro-mejias-lopez-9780826516770","title":"Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism","description":"\u003ci\u003eModernismo\u003c\/i\u003e (1880s-1920s) is considered one of the most groundbreaking literary movements in Hispanic history, as it transformed literature in Spanish to an extent not seen since the Renaissance. As Alejandro Mejias-Lopez demonstrates, however, \u003ci\u003emodernismo\u003c\/i\u003e was also groundbreaking in another, more radical way: it was the first time a postcolonial literature took over the literary field of the former European metropolis. \u003cp\u003eExpanding Bourdieu's concepts of cultural field and symbolic capital beyond national boundaries, \u003ci\u003eThe Inverted Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e shows how \u003ci\u003emodernismo\u003c\/i\u003e originated in Latin America and traveled to Spain, where it provoked a complete renovation of Spanish letters and contributed to a national identity crisis. In the process, described by Latin American writers as a reversal of colonial relations, \u003ci\u003emodernismo\u003c\/i\u003e wrested literary and cultural authority away from Spain, moving the cultural center of the Hispanic world to the Americas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mejias-Lopez further reveals how Spanish American \u003ci\u003emodernistas\u003c\/i\u003e confronted the racial supremacist claims and homogenizing force of an Anglo-American modernity that defined the Hispanic as un-modern. Constructing a new Hispanic genealogy, \u003ci\u003emodernistas\u003c\/i\u003e wrote Spain as the birthplace of modernity and themselves as the true bearers of the modern spirit, moved by the pursuit of knowledge, cosmopolitanism, and cultural miscegenation, rather than technology, consumption, and scientific theories of racial purity. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bound by the intrinsic limits of neocolonial and postcolonial theories, scholarship has been unwilling or unable to explore \u003ci\u003emodernismo's\u003c\/i\u003e profound implications for our understanding of Western modernities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandro Mejias-Lopez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826516777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826516770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2010 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 266","brand":"Alejandro Mejias-Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013818396927,"sku":"9780826516770","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74019644-9894-4609-9bd7-8225b667ddf8.jpg?v=1767744961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inverted-conquest-alejandro-mejias-lopez-9780826516770","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}