This Ghostly Poetry - History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets

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.

List of 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
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

About the author

Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Aguirre-Otezia
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781487503819
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0381-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese