Poesía y mercado cultural:la poesía española y sus antologías

The increase in the publication of anthologies of Spanish poetry that had begun during Franco´s dictatorship as a way of creating a literary canon reaches its high point during the democratic period, especially between 1995 and 2008. This essay examines the proliferation of anthologies of contemporary Spanish poetry from 1976 to present from the perspective of the different cultural policies deployed by individual governments and from the theoretical framework of cultural capital. Issues such as reading habits and the symbolic value of books and anthologies, the process of canonization of poets, and poetry prizes, among others, constitute the focus of this study.

La traducción como mecanismo de (re)canonización:el discurso nacional y feminista de Rosalía de Castro en sus traducciones a inglés

Women authors have been traditionally ignored by patriarchal values informing the dominant literary canon. The most important icon of Galician literature, however, is a woman – Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885). She is not only a foundational myth for Galician letters, but also one of the most widely translated Galician authors. That said, the way she has been canonized in the Galician literary system has generally presented her work as exclusively committed to the construction of the national/ist identity, disregarding and muting her subversive feminist ideas. Taking this context as a starting point, in this article I shall examine most English translations of her work published between 1909 and 2010 in order to assess to what extent these translations have contributed to either disseminating or concealing Rosalía de Castro’s national and/or feminist discourse. I also aim to offer new critical readings of some of the author’s texts written in 19th century, which show how the Galician author is a real pioneer in Western literary feminism.

Poesía y política cultural:las antologías de poesía en la España democrática

El incremento en la publicación de antologías de poesía española iniciado en el franquismo como proceso de creación de un canon literario alcanza su culminación durante la democracia, sobre todo entre 1995 y 2008. El presente ensayo analiza esa proliferación antológica desde la perspectiva de la política cultural desplegada por los distintos gobiernos democráticos y desde los presupuestos teóricos del capital cultural. Cuestiones tales como los hábitos de lectura, el valor simbólico del libro y de las antologías, y el proceso de canonización de los estamentos académicos, así como de los premios, conforman el eje de este estudio.