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- Title
Rubén Darío, Fascist? Francoist readings of Modernismo.
- Authors
VARÓN GONZÁLEZ, CARLOS
- Abstract
This article traces the presence of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío in Spanish literary criticism and film (1939–1944). The significance of his poetry, cosmopolitanism, nationality, race and modernist aesthetics pose a challenge to an early Francoist understanding of culture. Both literary criticism and propaganda film resorted to him as a way to legitimize and advance their respective aesthetic and political agendas. The struggle to rethink his position vis-à-vis Spanish culture reveals a series of factions and anxieties – aesthetic, historical, and political in nature – pertaining to the peninsular cultural field of the 1940s. Ultimately, these positionings highlight Darío’s importance as a signifier of modernity in Transatlantic Hispanic culture.
- Subjects
SPAIN; DARIO, Ruben, 1867-1916; SPANISH films -- History &; criticism; FRANCOISM; LITERATURE; MODERNISM (Literature); MODERNITY in literature; NICARAGUAN poetry; POLITICS &; literature; COSMOPOLITANISM in literature
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2017, Vol 94, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2017.11