The so-called ‘Silver Age’ of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of short, often pocket-sized books sold in urban kiosks at low prices. These series published a wide range of literature in a variety of genres and formats, but their role as disseminators of erotic and anarchist fiction led them to be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date, examining the kiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, visuality, celebrity, gender and sexuality, and the digital humanities.
Table of Content
Illustrations
Note on Translations
Commonly Cited Literary Collections
Acknowledgments
Introduction Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral
Jeffrey Zamostny
Chapter 1 Literary Collections
Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa
Chapter 2 Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de Noche
Carmen M. Pujante Segura
Chapter 3 Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic Literature
Itziar Rodríguez de Rivera
Chapter 4 Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy
Ryan A. Davis
Chapter 5 Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro Retana
Noël Valis
Chapter 6 Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age
Jeffrey Zamostny
Chapter 7 Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela Cinematográfica
Eva Woods Peiró
Color Section
Chapter 8 Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32)
Patricia Barrera Velasco
Chapter 9 La Novela Femenina: A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920s
Ángela Ena Bordonada
Chapter 10 Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular Fiction
Leslie Maxwell Kaiura
Chapter 11 Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern Age
Michelle M. Sharp
Chapter 12 Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and Modernity
Luis F. Cuesta
Chapter 13 Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31)
Manuel Martínez Arnaldos
Chapter 14 Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911
Edward Baker
Chapter 15 Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library
Dolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada
Conclusion Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural Objects
Susan Larson
About the author
Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Chair of Romance Languages and Professor of Spanish Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900–1936.
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