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Paul Southern - Diaz-Fernandez - 9781910572283 - V9781910572283
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Diaz-Fernandez

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Description for Diaz-Fernandez Hardcover. Translator(s): Southern, Paul. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
El Blocao, one of the most distinguished examples of avant-garde, anti-colonialist prose produced in Spain, is a collection of seven short stories parodying the highly popular serial fiction on the country's colonial wars in Morocco. Diaz-Fernandez appropriates the populist discourse articulated in the Moroccan War pulp fiction, subverting it in order to denounce the political and economic interests that inform the colonial enterprise, while effectively adopting the rhetorical innovations introduced by the European avant-garde during the 1920s. The Blockhouse achieved great success from the date of its publication in 1928; it was translated into various languages, and rapidly sold ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910572283
SKU
V9781910572283
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Ref
99-50

About Paul Southern
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo is assistant professor of Spanish at Oakland University. His research interests include the Hispanophone literature of the Maghreb, the historical novel on the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, and the connections between Colonial Morocco and the so called Edad de Plata of Spanish literature. Paul Southern is a literary translator and author based in the UK with major research ... Read more

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