Lorca After Life / Noel Valis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valis, Noel, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

García Lorca, Federico.

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Influence.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.) : 15 b-w illus.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A reflection on Federico García Lorca’s life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world “A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca’s execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one.”—Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Noël Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously re-imagined since his death. Lorca’s execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet’s afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people’s poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets’ society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet’s biography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

1. Why Dead Poets Matter

2. Lorca’s Grave

3. The People ’s Poet and the Right

Part Two

4. Fabulous Fag (I), or the Politics of Celebrity Murder

5. Fabulous Fag (II), or the Celebrity of Sex

6. Fabulous Fag (III), or a Face in the Crowd

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

ISBN:

0-300-26566-2

OCLC:

1309878437