"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 Republica...

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1. Verfasser:	Aguirre Oteiza, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Toronto Iberic 51
Schlagworte:	Spanischer Bürgerkrieg > Motiv Vergangenheitsbewältigung > Motiv Spanisch Exilliteratur Exiles' writings, Spanish / History and criticism Spanish poetry / 20th century / History and criticism Spain / History / Civil War, 1936-1939 / Literature and the war Ghosts in literature Exiles' writings, Spanish Spanish poetry War and literature Spain 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	xii, 369 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781487503819