Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain

Modernity and Mass Culture

Jeffrey Zamostny, Susan Larson, Jeffrey Zamostny

• Editorial: Intellect Books
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781783206674
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: European Literary Criticism

The so-called 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread classstruggleand mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers aclose look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collectionsof 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 themto be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the mostdetailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date, examining thekiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinarytheoriesof urban space, visuality, celebrity, gender and sexuality, andthe digital humanities.