Author: Alyssa Marie Holan
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Category : Masculinity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Louie Dean Valencia-García
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350038482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This book explores the role of young people in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing on their urban performances of dissent, their consumption of censored literature, political-literary magazines and comic books and their involvement in a newly developed punk scene. After forty years of dictatorship, Madrid became the centre of both a young democracy and a vibrant artistic scene by the early 1980s. Louie Dean Valencia-García skillfully examines how young Spaniards occupied public plazas, subverted Spanish cultural norms and undermined the authoritarian state by participating in a postmodern punk subculture that eventually grew into the 'Movida Madrileña'. In doing so, he exposes how this antiauthoritarian youth culture reflected a mixture of sexual liberation, a rejection of the ideological indoctrination of the dictatorship, a reinvention of native Iberian pluralistic traditions and a burgeoning global youth culture that connected the USA, Britain, France and Spain. By analyzing young people's everyday acts of resistance, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain offers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Ian Gregson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312222468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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How does post-war poetry explore what it means to a man: the experiences of the male body, of masculine identity and the links between the two? Ian Gregson's book discusses conventional expectations about male power--how the acquisition and maintenance of such power is a source of both prestige and vulnerability, so that the penis can appear significantly fragile in comparison with the phallus. In this, the first study of post-war poetry which draws upon recent theoretical insights into masculinity, it is shown how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets, but the focus is on mostly straight males. Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identified a gender malaise in themselves which they struggled with throughout their careers, and Derek Walcott's work displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. The impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heany of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle is discussed, together with the way in which C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon displayed the impact of feminism on male poets young enough to have encountered it at a formative period.