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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.
Jeffrey Zamostny is assistant professor of Spanish and director of the minor in gender and sexuality studies at the University of West Georgia. Susan Larson is professor of Spanish and Charles B. Qualia Chair in Classical and Modern Languages at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900–1936.
IllustrationsNote on TranslationsCommonly Cited Literary CollectionsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral Jeffrey ZamostnyChapter 1 Literary CollectionsAlberto Sánchez Álvarez-InsúaChapter 2 Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de NocheCarmen M. Pujante SeguraChapter 3 Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic LiteratureItziar Rodríguez de RiveraChapter 4 Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de HoyRyan A. DavisChapter 5 Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro RetanaNoël ValisChapter 6 Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital AgeJeffrey ZamostnyChapter 7 Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela CinematográficaEva Woods PeiróColor SectionChapter 8 Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32)Patricia Barrera VelascoChapter 9 La Novela Femenina: A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920sÁngela Ena BordonadaChapter 10 Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular FictionLeslie Maxwell KaiuraChapter 11 Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern AgeMichelle M. SharpChapter 12 Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and ModernityLuis F. CuestaChapter 13 Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31)Manuel Martínez ArnaldosChapter 14 Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911Edward BakerChapter 15 Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital LibraryDolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-CabadaConclusion Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural ObjectsSusan Larson