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The seminar adopts and translates recent ideological revisions of Mexico's alternate modernities; impacted by postcolonial, subaltern, and decolonial theories of Latin American exceptionality. The plural character of these combined exceptions and exemptions and refusals to reincorporate Mexicanness into modernizing Occidentalism will be foregrounded in two historical moments: modernismo-to-modernism, in convulsed Mexico (1900-1927) and criollista Nueva España “Baroque” hybridized and myth-invested ethics of nationhood (1604/1690): Bernardo de Balbuena’s Grandeza Mexicana (1604)/Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora's Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690). These materials will be framed in Europe's modernist, re-mythologized “Waste Land” (T.S. Eliot), as "brought home" to America in Hart Crane's The Bridge (a poem largely conceived and reborn in Cuba's Isla de Pinos.)(Fluent reading knowledge of Spanish)