This Ghostly Poetry : History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: On Forewords and Historical Ghosts -- Part One - Exiles in Literary History -- 2 Re-Engaging with Ghosts in the Poetic Machine -- 3 Writing the War, Re-Writing the Nation, Embodying the Voice of the People -- Part Two - Exiles in Poetic Memory -- 4 Juan Ramón Jiménez: "Photography Is Death Itself" − Visionary Poetics, Ruins, and the Testimony of Antonio Machado -- 5 Luis Cernuda: "Remember Him and Remember Him to Others" − Historical Memory, Self-Elegy, and Mythopoetic Figuration -- 6 Max Aub -- I. "Enclosed into Myself, Purblind, Mute" - Margins of the Poetic "I" and Testimonial Memory -- II. Usurping the Apocryphal: Exilic Testimony, Cosmopolitan Memory, and National Culture (The Case of Antonio Muñoz Molina) -- 7 Tomás Segovia: "In Exile from Exile" − Nomadic Ethics and the Broken Language of Ghosts -- CODA: Antonio Machado's Afterlives and Memories of Spanish Literary History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

This Ghostly Poetryexplores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain.

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