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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809717203321

Autore

Aguirre Oteiza Daniel

Titolo

This Ghostly Poetry : Reading Spanish Republican Exiles between Literary History and Poetic Memory / / Daniel Aguirre-Otezia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4875-1885-4

1-4875-1884-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Toronto Iberic

Disciplina

860.93552

Soggetti

Exiles' writings, Spanish - History and criticism

Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: On Forewords and Historical Ghosts -- Part One -- Exiles in Literary History -- 2 Re-Engaging with Ghosts in the Poetic Machine -- 3 Writing the War, Re-Writing the Nation, Embodying the Voice of the People -- Part Two -- Exiles in Poetic Memory -- 4 Juan Ramón Jimenez: "Photography Is Death Itself" − Visionary Poetics, Ruins, and the Testimony of Antonio Machado

5 Luis Cernuda: "Remember Him and Remember Him to Others" − Historical Memory, Self-Elegy, and Mythopoetic Figuration -- 6 Max Aub -- I. "Enclosed into Myself, Purblind, Mute" -- Margins of the Poetic "I" and Testimonial Memory -- II. Usurping the Apocryphal: Exilic Testimony, Cosmopolitan Memory, and National Culture (The Case of Antonio Muñoz Molina) -- 7 Tomás Segovia: "In Exile from Exile" − Nomadic Ethics and the Broken Language of Ghosts -- CODA: Antonio Machado's Afterlives and Memories of Spanish Literary History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Ghostly Poetry explores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain.