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Miguel Gomes
This article argues that Rufino Blanco Fombona's short stories, in particular Cuentos americanos, are a fundamental example of his ambiguities vis-à-vis Spanish American modernismo. Although his attacks on Rubén Darío were precisely articulated in his memoirs and essays, Blanco Fombona's fictions are heavily indebted to his modernista roots, and especially to his first contacts with nationalistic motifs in the work of several Venezuelan modernistas. The ultimate aim of this discussion is to challenge the rigidity with which traditional historiography differentiates modernismo and criollismo. A more nuanced approach to this moment in literary history allows us to better understand how aesthetic ideologies are manipulated by authors and critics to distribute and accumulate symbolic power in the field of cultural production.
