Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain

Description

The so-called 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of short, often pocket-sized books sold in urban kiosks at low prices. These series published a wide range of literature in a variety of genres and formats, but their role as disseminators of erotic and anarchist fiction led them to be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date, examining the kiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, visuality, celebrity, gender and sexuality, and the digital humanities.

Illustrations

Note on Translations

Commonly Cited Literary Collections

Acknowledgments

Introduction Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral 

Jeffrey Zamostny

Chapter 1 Literary Collections

Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa

Chapter 2 Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de Noche

Carmen M. Pujante Segura

Chapter 3 Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic Literature

Itziar Rodríguez de Rivera

Chapter 4 Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy

Ryan A. Davis

Chapter 5 Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro Retana

Noël Valis

Chapter 6 Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age

Jeffrey Zamostny

Chapter 7 Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela Cinematográfica

Eva Woods Peiró

Color Section

Chapter 8 Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32)

Patricia Barrera Velasco

Chapter 9 La Novela Femenina: A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920s

Ángela Ena Bordonada

Chapter 10 Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular Fiction

Leslie Maxwell Kaiura

Chapter 11 Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern Age

Michelle M. Sharp

Chapter 12 Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and Modernity

Luis F. Cuesta

Chapter 13 Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31)

Manuel Martínez Arnaldos

Chapter 14 Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911

Edward Baker

Chapter 15 Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library

Dolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada

Conclusion Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural Objects

Susan Larson

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Cultural studies
• Spanish
• Spain
• Portuguese
• Politics
• Spain (groupe)
• European

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783206674
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Contents
Illustrations
Note on Translations
Commonly Cited Literary Collections
Acknowledgments
Introduction   Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral
Jeffrey Zamostny
Chapter 1 Literary Collections
Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa
Chapter 2 Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de Noche
Carmen M. Pujante Segura
Chapter 3 Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic Literature
Itziar Rodríguez de Rivera
Chapter 4 Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy
Ryan A. Davis
Chapter 5 Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro Retana
Noël Valis
Chapter 6 Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age
Jeffrey Zamostny
Chapter 7 Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela Cinematográfica
Eva Woods Peiró
Color Section
Chapter 8 Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32) 223
Patricia Barrera Velasco
Chapter 9 La Novela Femenina : A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920s
Ángela Ena Bordonada
Chapter 10 Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular Fiction 285
Leslie Maxwell Kaiura
Chapter 11 Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern Age
Michelle M. Sharp
Chapter 12 Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and Modernity 329
Luis F. Cuesta
Chapter 13 Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31) 353
Manuel Martínez Arnaldos
Chapter 14 Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911
Edward Baker
Chapter 15 Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library
Dolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada
Conclusion Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural Objects Susan Larson
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Illustrations
1. Chinese Kiosk in the Prince’s Garden at Aranjuez. Photograph by Ángel Serrano Sánchez de León. Wikimedia Commons.
2. Kiosk on the Calle Isaac Peral (today Paseo de Canalejas) in Cádiz, c. 1907–09. Available at http://www.gentedecadiz.com/?p=5504 . Accessed 6 Oct. 2015.
3. Advertisement announcing points of sale for La Novela Semanal on page 63 of El café de camareras by Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent. La Novela Semanal 1.4. Madrid: Prensa Gráfica, 1921. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
4. Advertisement for subscriptions to La Novela de Hoy on page 64 of Memorias de un buzo by Joaquín Belda. La Novela de Hoy 2.45. Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1923. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
5. Drawing by I. Durán on page 25 of La Manolito by Severo Morales. La Novela Pasional 3.64. Madrid: Prensa Moderna, 1926.
6. Drawing by Antonio Solís Ávila on page 33 of Infierno by César Juarros. La Novela de Hoy 8.370. Madrid: Atlántida, 1929. Reproduced with permission of the artist’s heirs.
7. Drawing by Antonio Solís Ávila on page 63 of Infierno . Reproduced with permission of the artist’s heirs.
8. Drawing by Antonio Solís Ávila on page 48 of Infierno . Reproduced with permission of the artist’s heirs.
9. “ La Pantalla en Hollywood.” Don Coleman in bottom left corner; Ben Turpin in top left center. La Pantalla 13 (Madrid, 23 Mar. 1928): 200–201.
10. Serial films as historicized by film magazines. Cinema Variedades 13 (1935).
11. “The Audience Writes to the ‘Stars.’ The Letters They Receive and the Secrets They Tell.” Cinegramas 5 (14 Oct. 1934): 17.
12. Imperio Argentina’s wedding gown. Cinegramas 5 (14 Oct. 1934): 29.
13. Caricaturing star-struck fans educated and entertained the reader-viewer. Proyector. Magazine Español de Cine (15 Apr. 1936): 14–15.
14. Projecting the reader-viewer as both filming subject and filmed object. Proyector. Magazine Español de Cine 3 (15 Jan. 1936): 3.
15. Cinegramas ’ first issue remediates the film strip, training the reader to see both the medium and the object rendered. Cinegramas 1 (9 Jan. 1934): 1.
16. An example of the renovation of the film-strip framing device. Cinegramas 10 (18 Nov. 1934).
17. In the midst of a war in the Rif, Africa as imagined for a new phase of (Spanish) colonialism. Boletín de Información Cinematográfica (Apr. 1923).
18. An image from El velo de la dicha ( Édouard-Émile Violet ١٩٢٣ ), serving here as an isolated decorative icon. Fotogramas (June 1926).
19. Cover of Memorias de un buzo . Illustration by Reyes.
20. Cover of Un mundo al descubierto: El planeta prodigioso by José María Salaverría. Illustration by Bagaría. La Novela de Hoy 8.360. Madrid: CIAP/Atlántida, 1929. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
21. Cover of La confidente by Carmen de Burgos (Colombine). Illustration by Aguirre. La Novela de Noche 3.58. Madrid: Sáez Hermanos, 1926.
22. Cover of Las simulaciones de Charito by Clara Isabel de Sade. Illustration by Demetrio. La Novela de Noche 3.61. Madrid: Sáez Hermanos, 1926.
23. Illustration by Herreros on page 1 of Las simulaciones de Charito .
24. Cover of Las histéricas by León Inardiel. Illustration by Pan. La Novela Exquisita 3.77. Madrid: Flérida, 1925.
25. Cover of El fuego de Lesbos . Novel and illustration by Álvaro Retana. Madrid: Biblioteca Hispania, 1921.
26. Cover of Flor del mal by Álvaro Retana. Illustration by Guillén. La Novela de Hoy 3.106. Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1924. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
27. Drawing by Guillén on page 14 of Flor del mal .
28. Raquel Meller with a decorative frame border on the cover of Fotogramas (Jan. 1927).
29. The 1928 cover of Fotogramas submerges the reader in an international and cosmopolitan visual style.
30. Cover of Cuentos andaluces by Blanca de los Ríos. La Novela Femenina 1.5. Barcelona: Publicaciones Mundial, 1925. Private collection of Ángela Ena Bordonada.
31. Portrait of Blanca de los Ríos in Cuentos andaluces . Private collection of Ángela Ena Bordonada.
32. Cover of Fútbol...jazz-band by Rafael López de Haro. Illustration by Varela de Seijas. La Novela de Hoy 3.127. Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1924. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
33. Cover of K-O. Novela del boxeo by Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent. Illustration by Esteban. La Novela de Hoy 8.361. Madrid: Atlántida, 1929. Private collection of Jeffrey Zamostny.
34. Map of Madrid kiosks in 1911 as cataloged in the “Relación de los Kioscos Instalados en la Vía Pública y Canon que Cada Uno Satisface.” Points in red represent kiosks that specialized in the sale of print goods. Points in blue indicate kiosks that sold candies, beverages, flowers, and other wares. It has not been possible to identify the products sold in the kiosks labeled in yellow. Base map: Plano de Madrid, Almanaque y guía matritense (Madrid: E. Raso, 1911). Created by Andy Walter (Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia).
Note on Translations
As the first book on Silver Age kiosk literature published in English, this volume aims to reach an interdisciplinary readership including but not limited to academic Hispanists. To that end, we have provided English translations of selected quotations. The translations of literary and other primary texts are accompanied by the quotations in their original language, either in the main text (in the case of short quotations) or the end notes (for longer quotations). The original language has been omitted for quotations from critical studies and other secondary texts, except where these are the main object of analysis. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are the work of the author of each chapter or, for the chapters that have been translated into English, the translator or translators.
Commonly Cited Literary Collections
El Cuento Semanal/The Weekly Story , Madrid, 263 numbers, 4 Jan. 1907–12 Jan. 1912
Los Contemporáneos/The Contemporaries , Madrid, 898 numbers, 1 Jan. 1909–28 Mar. 1926
La Novela Corta/The Short Novel , Madrid, 499 numbers, 15 Jan. 1916–13 June 1925
La Novela Semanal/The Weekly Novel , Madrid, 233 numbers, 25 June 1921–26 Dec. 1925
La Novela de Hoy/Today’s Novel , Madrid, 526 numbers, 19 May 1922–14 June 1932
La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica/The Weekly Cinematographic Novel , Barcelona, approximately 622 titles, 15 Nov. 1922–Aug. 1932
La Novela de Noche/The Nightly Novel , Madrid, 61 numbers, 30 Mar. 1924–30 Sept. 1926
Acknowledgments
Many people on both sides of the Atlantic came together to make this book a reality. First and foremost, thanks to the contributors for their intellectual generosity, patience, and enthusiasm for the Spanish Silver Age and kiosk literature. Manuel Martínez Arnaldos and Carmen Pujante Segura of the Universidad de Murcia provided sources difficult to access in the United States. Likewise, members of the Spanish research collaboratives The Other Silver Age and Spanish and European Literatures: From Text to Hypermedia participated in collegial exchanges with US-based Hispanists. Susan hosted Patricia Barrera Velasco of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as a doctoral research assistant at the University of Kentucky in t