This Ghostly Poetry : : History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets / / Daniel Aguirre-Otezia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Aguirre-Otezia, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Jiménez: “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 -- 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 -- TORONTO IBERIC