Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2023, 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 Fortun'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 alte (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Rebecca Haidt (Advisor); Jeffrey Zamostny (Committee Member); Dionisio Viscarri (Committee Member); Eugenia Romero (Committee Member) Subjects: European History; Foreign Language; Gender Studies; Modern Literature; Womens Studies