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

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 th...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Toronto Iberic
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations
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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