Among Empires: Anti‐Imperialism and Hispano‐ Americanism in España contemporánea by Rubén Dario

Abstract

This paper examines Rubén Darío’s España contemporánea. Crónicas y retratos literarios (1901) in order to problematize the author’s perspective and position of enunciation. In the first part, we address the ways in which Darío’s chronicles represent imperialism. In the second part, we argue that Darío displays an anti-imperialist and Hispano-Americanist perspective, distancing himself from colonial and Eurocentric thought, as well as relocating and differentially reevaluating Hispanic American culture in comparison to the United States and Europe.

Keywords

• Rubén Darío
• antiimperialismo
• imperialismo
• hispanoamericanismo
• perspectiva ideológica