1st Edition

The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego A Critical Anthology

Edited By Montse Feu Copyright 2022
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology collects and contextualizes Pego’s 118 literary chronicles published between 1940 and 1967 in the periodical España Libre, New York. The satire of this household name in the US Spanish-language press lambasted Fascist Spain, lampooned American diplomatic relations with Francisco Franco, and mocked the Spanish exiles’... Read more
Part I: Mocking Fascists  1.1 Mocking el Caudillo (Francisco Franco Bahamonde)  1.2 Mocking the Fascist State: Hunger, Terror, Military Parades, and Censorship of the Press  1.3 Mocking National Catholicism and the Imperial Politics of Spanish Fascist  Part II: Mocking Antifascists  2.1 Mocking Americans and International Powers  2.2 Mocking the Exiles and The Underground Resistance 2.3 Roque Barca: The Last Decades of the Dictatorship Epilogue: Antifascist Sentiment

Biography

Montse Feu is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, USA. Feu recovers the literary history of the Spanish Civil War exile in the United States, US Hispanic periodicals, and migration and exile literature at large.

"A wonderful collection of Aurelio Pego’s satirical writing about Fascist Spain … no one is left unscathed, from the ever-vain Caudillo and the archbishop of Madrid to UNESCO and exiled antifascists whose strident militancy often fell flat and harmless, impotent to affect the change they desired. Feu’s organization and analysis of these sharp-witted chronicles provides a fascinating exploration of Pego’s humorous observations and profound insight into the cultural dynamics of Franco’s Spain."

Christopher J. Castañeda, History Professor, Sacramento State, Co-editor Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States