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Images of Spain in Irish Literature, 1922-1975 (Paperback, New edition)
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Images of Spain in Irish Literature, 1922-1975 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Reimagining Ireland, 82
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This new study investigates how Spain was represented in Irish
fiction, plays, poems, and travelogues written in a period covering
the first five decades of Irish independence, as well as the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Franco dictatorship
(1939-1975). These two countries situated at Europe's western
periphery followed a similar socio-political trajectory in the
twentieth century, despite the crucial difference that democracy
survived the civil war in Ireland, but not in Spain. Both De
Valera's Ireland and Franco's Spain were marked by a Catholic
conservative-nationalist state ideology and by economic, political,
and cultural isolation throughout the 1940s and 1950s, but
underwent a rapid process of modernization from the 1960s onwards.
Against this historical background, and drawing on the useful
theoretical concepts of imagology, the author analyses a variety of
literary depictions of life in Spain and explores what the writers'
"hetero-images" of Spain reveal about their "auto-images" of
Ireland. The book demonstrates how Irish writers used Spain and its
troubles as a foil for Ireland, in order to comment obliquely on
socio-political developments in their own country since the
achievement of independence.
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