An anti-fascism exile defending himself againstthe eviction from history: Seoane in the 50s
This article studies the multitalented intellectual Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), who arrived in late 1936 at his city of birth, Buenos Aires, as a Republican exiled due to his commitment to Gallician nationalism during the Second Republic (1931-1936). The article begins by reenacting the double de...
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ftunivnicenfch:oai:ojs2.ojs2.fch.unicen.edu.ar:8080:article/1832 2023-12-24T10:23:22+01:00 An anti-fascism exile defending himself againstthe eviction from history: Seoane in the 50s Un exiliado antifascista defendiéndose contra el desalojo de la historia: Seoane en los años cincuenta García Martínez, Pablo 2023-11-24 application/pdf https://ojs2.fch.unicen.edu.ar/ojs-3.1.0/index.php/anuario-ies/article/view/1832 spa spa Instituto de Estudios Histórico-Sociales (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) https://ojs2.fch.unicen.edu.ar/ojs-3.1.0/index.php/anuario-ies/article/view/1832/1676 https://ojs2.fch.unicen.edu.ar/ojs-3.1.0/index.php/anuario-ies/article/view/1832 Derechos de autor 2023 Anuario IEHS https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Anuario IEHS; Irregular matrioskas. Global history of anti-fascism in Argentina and Latin America: spaces, cultures, temporality (2023 Supplement); 203-227 Anuario IEHS; Matrioskas irregulares. Historia global del antifascismo en Argentina y Latinoamérica: espacios, culturas, temporalidad (Suplemento 2023); 203-227 2524-9339 0326-9671 10.37894/ai.vi Luís Seoane Walter Benjamin Memoria del futuro Desalojo de la historia La soldadera As cicatrices Galicia Emigrante Future-oriented Memory Eviction from History info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed articles Artículos evaluados por pares 2023 ftunivnicenfch https://doi.org/10.37894/ai.vi 2023-11-30T02:10:37Z This article studies the multitalented intellectual Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), who arrived in late 1936 at his city of birth, Buenos Aires, as a Republican exiled due to his commitment to Gallician nationalism during the Second Republic (1931-1936). The article begins by reenacting the double defense informing Seoane’s anti-fascism: defense against something (the rise of fascisms) and defense of something (beauty as an expression of the human virtue meant to prevail after the years of bombs and shrapnel). Then, the text delves into the world left by World War II, a context that I propose to conceive as one of eviction from history for those Republican exiled who remained in the expatration while the North Atlantic enhanced the postwar narrative. The article closes by analyzing the refraction of this trope into literary texts authored by Seoane as the poems’ collection As cicatrices (1959) and, primarily, the playwriting La soldadera (1957). These texts provide the base for a dialogue with the ideas on history written by Walter Benjamin in response to the anguishing atmosphere of his last months. El presente artículo tiene como protagonista al polifacético Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), quien llegaría, a finales de 1936, a la ciudad de su nacimiento, Buenos Aires, como exiliado republicano, a causa de su implicación con el nacionalismo gallego durante los años de la Segunda República española (1931-1936). El texto comienza reconstruyendo la doble defensa en la que se fundaba el antifascismo de Seoane: la defensa frente a algo (el auge de los fascismos) y la defensa de algo (la belleza como expresión de una virtud humana que debía perdurar más allá de los años de la metralla). Desde aquí, se avanza hacia el contexto posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que propongo pensar como el de un desalojo de la historia para las exiliadas y los exiliados republicanos que seguían sufriendo el destierro, mientras el Atlántico Norte esforzaba la narrativa de posguerra. El artículo analiza la refracción de este tropo en ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Revistas de la FCH-UNICEN (Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) Allá ENVELOPE(17.421,17.421,66.587,66.587) Doble ENVELOPE(-62.550,-62.550,-64.667,-64.667) Española ENVELOPE(-60.383,-60.383,-62.660,-62.660) |
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This article studies the multitalented intellectual Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), who arrived in late 1936 at his city of birth, Buenos Aires, as a Republican exiled due to his commitment to Gallician nationalism during the Second Republic (1931-1936). The article begins by reenacting the double defense informing Seoane’s anti-fascism: defense against something (the rise of fascisms) and defense of something (beauty as an expression of the human virtue meant to prevail after the years of bombs and shrapnel). Then, the text delves into the world left by World War II, a context that I propose to conceive as one of eviction from history for those Republican exiled who remained in the expatration while the North Atlantic enhanced the postwar narrative. The article closes by analyzing the refraction of this trope into literary texts authored by Seoane as the poems’ collection As cicatrices (1959) and, primarily, the playwriting La soldadera (1957). These texts provide the base for a dialogue with the ideas on history written by Walter Benjamin in response to the anguishing atmosphere of his last months. El presente artículo tiene como protagonista al polifacético Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), quien llegaría, a finales de 1936, a la ciudad de su nacimiento, Buenos Aires, como exiliado republicano, a causa de su implicación con el nacionalismo gallego durante los años de la Segunda República española (1931-1936). El texto comienza reconstruyendo la doble defensa en la que se fundaba el antifascismo de Seoane: la defensa frente a algo (el auge de los fascismos) y la defensa de algo (la belleza como expresión de una virtud humana que debía perdurar más allá de los años de la metralla). Desde aquí, se avanza hacia el contexto posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que propongo pensar como el de un desalojo de la historia para las exiliadas y los exiliados republicanos que seguían sufriendo el destierro, mientras el Atlántico Norte esforzaba la narrativa de posguerra. El artículo analiza la refracción de este tropo en ... |
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