{"product_id":"written-in-red-9780252034695","title":"Written in Red","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first major study of the profound impact of international communist politics and culture on Spanish letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e A \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.\u003cbr\u003e \"Spanning several decades of leftist literary production, this innovative, thought-provoking book underscores the cultural impact of, the Spanish Civil War, the International Brigades, Stalinism, the Czech purge, Rotspanier, the Marquis, and the Holocaust. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century intellectual history.\"--\u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant analysis of the relationship between political commitment and activism, personal relations and affect.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Volunteer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Herrmann is an accomplished writer who brings together scholars from many disciplines and leaves us with engaging questions about the relationship between literature and politics.\"--\u003ci\u003eHispania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, \u003ci\u003eWritten in Red\u003c\/i\u003e brings a sophisticated theoretical grounding and broad intellectual and historical contextualization to the analysis of the autobiographical writings of six major Spanish writers and public figures of the Civil War and postwar periods. It promotes a long-overdue reckoning of the role of Spain and the Spanish left in one of the central historical dramas of the twentieth century: the rise and fall of communist ideology and practice across Europe and Asia.\"--Kathleen Vernon, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tour-de-force, impressive in its novel engagement with the issue of the Spanish Communist Party's influence on writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \u003ci\u003eWritten in Red\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book dealing head on with party politics and commitment as an essential dimension to the writing itself.\"--Michael Ugarte, author of \u003ci\u003eShifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface   ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Subject of Communist Autobiography   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dolores Ibarruri and the Mothering of the Party   25\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Road to Consciousness: Youth and Conversion   54\u003cbr\u003e 3. The War in Spain   84\u003cbr\u003e 4. Exile and Left Melancholia: Maria Teresa Leon and Rafael Alberti   128\u003cbr\u003e 5. Between Devotion and Disillusion: Jorge Semprun, Teresa Pamies, and the Recovery of Communist Memory   166\u003cbr\u003e Notes   203\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   219\u003cbr\u003e Index   235\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400424792407,"sku":"9780252034695","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252034695.jpg?v=1730470651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/written-in-red-9780252034695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}