Author: Daniel Aguirre-Otezia
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487518854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
This Ghostly Poetry
Author: Daniel Aguirre-Otezia
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487518854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487518854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
Literature and Inner Exile
Author: Paul Ilie
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire
Author: Francie Cate-Arries
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
By the end of the Spanish Civil War in March of 1939, almost 500,000 Spaniards had fled Francisco Franco's newly established military dictatorship. More than 275,000 refugees in France were immediately interned in hastily constructed concentration camps, most of which were located along the open shorelines of France's southernmost beaches. This book chronicles the cultural memory of this war refugee population whose stories as camp inmates in the early 1940s remain largely unknown, unlike the wide dissemination of the literature and testimony of the survivors of Nazi death camps. The hidden history of France's seaside camps for Spanish Republicans spawned a rich legacy of cultural works that dramatically demonstrate how a displaced political community began to reconstitute itself from the ruins of war, literally from the sands of exile. Combining close textual analyses of memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction with a carefully researched historical perspective, Spanish Culture behind Barbed Wire Investigates how the most significant literature of the early post-civil war exile period appropriated the concentration camp as a discursive vehicle.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
By the end of the Spanish Civil War in March of 1939, almost 500,000 Spaniards had fled Francisco Franco's newly established military dictatorship. More than 275,000 refugees in France were immediately interned in hastily constructed concentration camps, most of which were located along the open shorelines of France's southernmost beaches. This book chronicles the cultural memory of this war refugee population whose stories as camp inmates in the early 1940s remain largely unknown, unlike the wide dissemination of the literature and testimony of the survivors of Nazi death camps. The hidden history of France's seaside camps for Spanish Republicans spawned a rich legacy of cultural works that dramatically demonstrate how a displaced political community began to reconstitute itself from the ruins of war, literally from the sands of exile. Combining close textual analyses of memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction with a carefully researched historical perspective, Spanish Culture behind Barbed Wire Investigates how the most significant literature of the early post-civil war exile period appropriated the concentration camp as a discursive vehicle.
Exile and Cultural Hegemony
Author: Sebastiaan Faber
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
After Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country's intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, these exiles held that the Republic, not Francoism, represented the authentic culture of Spain. In this environment, as Sebastiaan Faber argues in Exile and Cultural Hegemony, the Spaniards' conception of their role as intellectuals changed markedly over time. The first study of its kind to place the exiles' ideological evolution in a broad historical context, Exile and Cultural Hegemony takes into account developments in both Spanish and Mexican politics from the early 1930s through the 1970s. Faber pays particular attention to the intellectuals' persistent nationalism and misplaced illusions of pan-Hispanist grandeur, which included awkward and ironic overlaps with the rhetoric employed by their enemies on the Francoist right. This embrace of nationalism, together with the intellectuals' dependence on the increasingly authoritarian Mexican regime and the international climate of the Cold War, eventually caused them to abandon the Gramscian ideal of the intellectual as political activist in favor of a more liberal, apolitical stance preferred by, among others, the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset. With its comprehensive approach to topics integral to Spanish culture, both students of and those with a general interest in twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, or culture will find Exile and Cultural Hegemony a fascinating and groundbreaking work.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
After Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country's intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, these exiles held that the Republic, not Francoism, represented the authentic culture of Spain. In this environment, as Sebastiaan Faber argues in Exile and Cultural Hegemony, the Spaniards' conception of their role as intellectuals changed markedly over time. The first study of its kind to place the exiles' ideological evolution in a broad historical context, Exile and Cultural Hegemony takes into account developments in both Spanish and Mexican politics from the early 1930s through the 1970s. Faber pays particular attention to the intellectuals' persistent nationalism and misplaced illusions of pan-Hispanist grandeur, which included awkward and ironic overlaps with the rhetoric employed by their enemies on the Francoist right. This embrace of nationalism, together with the intellectuals' dependence on the increasingly authoritarian Mexican regime and the international climate of the Cold War, eventually caused them to abandon the Gramscian ideal of the intellectual as political activist in favor of a more liberal, apolitical stance preferred by, among others, the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset. With its comprehensive approach to topics integral to Spanish culture, both students of and those with a general interest in twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, or culture will find Exile and Cultural Hegemony a fascinating and groundbreaking work.
Twentieth-century Spanish Poets
Author: Jerry Phillips Winfield
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Profiles more than thirty Spanish poets of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Profiles more than thirty Spanish poets of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
Shifting Ground
Author: Michael Ugarte
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Latin America and the Literature of Exile
Author: Hans-Bernhard Moeller
Publisher: Heidelberg : C. Winter
ISBN:
Category : Authors, European
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Heidelberg : C. Winter
ISBN:
Category : Authors, European
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Absence and Presence
Author: Catherine Gullo Bellver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The story of the relationship between these poets and their public is a complex drama of gradations of inclusion and exclusion. The textual interplay between absence and presence reveals issues of subjectivity, language, thematics, and voice.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The story of the relationship between these poets and their public is a complex drama of gradations of inclusion and exclusion. The textual interplay between absence and presence reveals issues of subjectivity, language, thematics, and voice.
La torre
Author: Jaime Benítez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rican literature
Languages : es
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rican literature
Languages : es
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalan Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalans
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalans
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description