Irish Poetry in Faro de Vigo (1961-1981): Francisco Fernández del Riego and Álvaro Cunqueiro in the Galician Newspaper

Authors

  • Rubén Jarazo Álvarez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3633

Keywords:

Irish Poetry, Spanish Literature, Galicia.

Abstract

Contemporary poetry, as we will try to demonstrate in this case study,
has been essential for scholars and critics in favour of free speech and against cultural repression during Spanish Dictatorship. In this sense, professionals from peripheral regions such as Catalonia, Basque Country and Galicia were in favour of foreign texts and their reception in Spanish culture as an infallible method to reveal twentieth century Spanish culture from obscurantism. In this article we will focus on the reception of literary texts produced by significant Irish poets translated in the Spanish literary panorama, paying special attention to those translations and reviews produced by Álvaro Cunqueiro and Francisco del Riego.

Author Biography

  • Rubén Jarazo Álvarez
    Rubén JARAZO ÁLVAREZ is Junior Research Fellow at the English Department (P. Ángeles Alvariño) and member of the University Institute of Research in Irish Studies ‘Amergin’ at the University of Coruña (Spain). After completing his Ph.D. on the presence of Anglophone literatures in twentieth century Galician Press in 2009, one of his main research interests, and lecturing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr. Jarazo has been awarded with a post as Junior research fellow at the University of Coruña. He has published several articles and volumes on the reception of William Shakespeare in Galicia, the works of Álvaro Cunqueiro, and the established relationship between censorship and translation in Galicia during the second half of the twentieth century. His latest publications include ´To Banish Ghost and Goblin’ New Essays on Irish Culture (2010) and In the Wake of the Tiger. Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2010), co-edited with David Clark.

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Published

2011-11-17

Issue

Vol. 13 (2011): ABEI Journal 13

Section

Poetry

How to Cite

Jarazo Álvarez, R. (2011). Irish Poetry in Faro de Vigo (1961-1981): Francisco Fernández del Riego and Álvaro Cunqueiro in the Galician Newspaper. ABEI Journal, 13, 137-155. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3633