Mosaic Fictions : Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War / Emily Robins Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpe, Emily Robins, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Literature and the war.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 244 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Treating published and archival writings, the book focuses on the extensive contributions of Jewish Canadian authors as they articulate the stakes of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) in the language of a nascent North American multiculturalism. Placing Jewish Canadian writers within overlapping North American networks of Jewish, Black, immigrant, female, and queer writers challenges the national distinctions that dominate current critical approaches to Anglophone Spanish Civil War literature. Reframing the narrative of Spain’s noble but tragic struggle against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, the book demonstrates how marginalized North American supporters of the Spanish Republic crafted narratives of inclusive citizenship amidst a national crisis not entirely their own. Mosaic Fictions examines texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present to illuminate the integral connections between Canada’s developing national identity and global leftist action.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. A Better Earth: Looking at Spain, Envisioning Canada

1. Love: Impossible War Romances

2. Sympathy: Cosmopolitan Combat and Postcolonial Spain

3. Community: Documenting Female Friendship in Spain

4. Inclusion: Elegizing Lorca

Conclusion. Remembrance: Envisioning Spain and Canada Now

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1315-1

1-4875-1314-3

OCLC:

1130309610