Lorca after life / Noël Valis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945- 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:

xi, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico Garcia 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 assassination. 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. 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, including those related to his sexuality and gender identity. Lorca is intimately tied to both an individual and collective identity, as the people's poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets' society. His fame is a reinvigorated expression of the marvelous in the modern world, with homosexuality as one of its most fascinating manifestations.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-425) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945- Lorca after life.

ISBN:

0300257864

9780300257861

OCLC:

1261304433