Acknowledgments
Introduction: Autonomizing the Calderonian Auto Sacramental
Section I: Tradition Revised: The Auto Sacramental in the Early
Twentieth Century
Chapter One: The Avant-Garde Rediscovery of the Auto
Reviving the Calderonian Auto: An Avant-Garde Project
Rewriting the Auto: The Aesthetic Turns Political
Chapter Two: Francoism and the Auto as Political Mouthpiece
Restoring the Auto: From the Battlefield to a National Theater
Recalling the Fascist Auto: Miguel Hernández and Gonzalo
Torrente Ballester Search for Autoridad
Section II: Tradition Overthrown: The Auto Sacramental in the
Post-Franco Era
Chapter Three: Subverting Tradition: Francisco Nieva and His Sacred
Irreverence
Chapter Four: Emerging from Darkness: National and Theatrical
Revision in Jesús Campos García’s A ciegas
Chapter Five: The Auto Industry: Anti-Commercialism and the Plays
of Ernesto Caballero
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author
Carey Kasten is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University.
This book is a valuable addition to Spanish Drama Studies. Even
though Spanish Cultural and Cinema Studies are producing a solid
and steady body of work that deals with different aspects of
Spanish cultural history, Drama Studies is still a field highly
neglected in the area of Literary Studies in general and in the
field of the Hispanism in the United States in particular. The
Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater comes to
fill a void in the study of the relationship of culture, ideology
and politics in the problematic Spanish twentieth century. . . .The
book is very well written; it is clear, concise and straight to the
point. Furthermore, it is very pleasant and enjoyable to read.
Kasten's chronological approach helps the reader not just to
understand the evolution of the auto during the twentieth century
but also the ideological transformation of a country which evolved
from the democratic experience of the Second Republic to the Civil
War and the subsequent fascist dictatorship to the return to
democracy in the late 1970s. . . .To sum up, Kasten's book is an
indispensable tool for anyone approaching the history of Spanish
theatre. Her originality, her thorough analysis and her
comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach represent an
extraordinary contribution to the field of Spanish Cultural
Studies.
*Bulletin of Hispanic Studies*
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