{"product_id":"writing-and-politics-in-franco-s-spain","title":"Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1940 and 1965, Spain was almost entirely cut off from the intellectual life of western Europe. Within Spain itself, opposition writers believed that a committed literature could take over the role of the press in a democratic society, dealing with daily realities and social issues as well as with political questions. This was the background to the emergence in the 1950s of the \u003ci\u003enovela social\u003c\/i\u003e, Spain’s post-war realist novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1990, \u003ci\u003eWriting and Politics in Franco’s Spain \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the early development of this literary movement and reveals the beginnings of the \u003ci\u003enovela social\u003c\/i\u003e as a complex, dynamic, gradually unfolding process. Making use of new research, the author charts the ways in which authors involved in the \u003ci\u003enovela social\u003c\/i\u003e formed groups around certain literary and cultural reviews of the period. He traces the influences which provided the early social novelists with theoretical and practical guidance for their writing, pointing especially to Sartre, Italian neo-realism, and the novels of North American writers like Hemingway and Dos Passos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major reassessment of an important literary movement, \u003ci\u003eWriting and Politics in Franco’s Spain \u003c\/i\u003eis deeply concerned with relations between texts, contexts, and wider social and cultural processes. It will be of special value to students of contemporary Spanish literature and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54846623842648,"sku":"9781041119814","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781041119814.jpg?v=1768408212","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/writing-and-politics-in-franco-s-spain","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}