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Memorializing the Spanish Avant-garde: The Gendered Dynamics of Inclusion in Homages to the Generation of 1927

Acosta, Angela Marie
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7568-2980
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681727521558758

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
A constructed practice of homage has historically omitted women’s legacies and granted nearly exclusive support for the ten male poets considered the originators of the avant-garde artistic group known as the Generation of 1927. Only recently have the modern women writers known as “las Sinsombrero” been incorporated into the homage traditions of the Generation of 1927, though an existing corpus of written, performed, and recorded homages has long been available in Spanish archives and libraries. However, the materials of homages have not yet been critically analyzed for how they reveal the gendered, classed, and sexualized ways that the literary history of the generation has been constructed. This project interrogates literary canon formation through the study of homage to make women visible within the formative spaces of early twentieth-century artistic production in Spain. The Generation of 1927 offers a special case study in the ways homages serve as mythmaking projects that center androcentric prestige formations such as anthologies. However, as a reconceptualized concept, homage can also provide lifemaking opportunities for scholars and writers of all genders and genres, as will be demonstrated in Chapter 3 in my analysis of the “Academy of Witches” gatherings of en dehors garde women. This project examines how writers like Vicente Aleixandre, Carmen Conde, and Amanda Junquera moved between their public-facing literary careers and the lifemaking impulses of cohabitation and queer futures in their shared home, Velintonia. I provide textual and cultural analyses of poetic tributes, newspaper clippings, gatherings at Velintonia, Elena Fortún’s "Oculto sendero", and Amanda Junquera’s "Un hueco en la luz" to interrogate the gendered dynamics of literary canon formation in homages to the Generation of 1927. Drawing on feminist critiques of the literary canon, queer theory, archival studies, memory studies, and cultural heritage studies, the present work proposes alternate paradigms for tracing the development and legacy of the Generation of 1927 as part of Spain’s cultural heritage. Inserting itself into larger efforts by research collaborations like the “Other Silver Age Spain” group at the Complutense University of Madrid, and foregrounding new editions of women’s works, this project provides a framework within which to construct a more authentic approximation of the queer and female creative lives lived in Spain and in exile in the Americas during the first half of the twentieth century.
Rebecca Haidt (Advisor)
Jeffrey Zamostny (Committee Member)
Dionisio Viscarri (Committee Member)
Eugenia Romero (Committee Member)
366 p.
European History; Foreign Language; Gender Studies; Modern Literature; Womens Studies
Homage; Generation of 1927; “las Sinsombrero”; Literary Canon; Modernism; Las Modernas; Silver Age Spain; Queer Futures

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  • Acosta, A. M. (2023). Memorializing the Spanish Avant-garde: The Gendered Dynamics of Inclusion in Homages to the Generation of 1927 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681727521558758

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  • Acosta, Angela. Memorializing the Spanish Avant-garde: The Gendered Dynamics of Inclusion in Homages to the Generation of 1927 . 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681727521558758.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Acosta, Angela. "Memorializing the Spanish Avant-garde: The Gendered Dynamics of Inclusion in Homages to the Generation of 1927 ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681727521558758

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