Paradoxes of Stasis Literature, Politics, and Thought in Francoist Spain / Tatjana Gajic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gajić, Tatjana, 1964- author.

Series:

New hispanisms.

New Hispanisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism and literature--Spain.

Fascism and literature.

Francoism in literature.

Politics in literature.

Spanish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Summary:

Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime's supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gaji?analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gaji? argues that the combination of Francoism's long duration and the uncertainty surroundingits ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regime's politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres-legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir-Gaji? examines the different responses to the underlying tensionsof the Francoist erain the context of the regime's attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers' critiques of Francoism's endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.

Contents:

Introduction: unstable stasis

Legislating Francoism

The movement of divergence: Dionisio Ridruejo from totalitarianism to liberalism

Paradoxes of Francoist stasis: Miguel Espinosa and the art of protest

Standstills of history: nothingness, tragedy, and exile in Maria Zambrano's thought

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496212993

1496212991

9781496213013

1496213017

OCLC:

1076573715