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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2017
Pages: 297-322
Series: The New Urban Atlantic
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319582078
Full citation:
, "A disconcerting language", in: Imperialism and the wider atlantic, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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A disconcerting language
Valle-Inclán's Tirano banderas and the hispanic atlantic
pp. 297-322
in: Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado (eds), Imperialism and the wider atlantic, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Abstract
This article analyzes Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Tirano Banderas (1926) as a novel embedded in the historical context of the Hispanic Atlantic, but one that constantly exceeds the cultural norms constituting the Atlantic as the inaugural space of the modern/colonial world. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's thoughts on language, belonging, and cultural identity in Monolingualism of the Other, the article shows that the novel's disconcerting language, which is made up of musical modernista literary language, of grotesque, socially marginal linguistic elements, and of strange idioms that are paradoxically unable to tie speakers to a territory or to a social situation, makes the reader aware of the alienation constitutive of all languages and thus displaces the idea of Spanish as an imperial/national language.
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Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2017
Pages: 297-322
Series: The New Urban Atlantic
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319582078
Full citation:
, "A disconcerting language", in: Imperialism and the wider atlantic, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017