‘Yo procedo por explosión violenta y ruidosamente’: Rereading the Political in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s fin-de-siècle Journalistic Production

• Autores: Bryan Cameron
• Localización: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 ), ISSN 1475-3839, ISSN-e 1478-3398, Vol. 95, Nº. 6, 2018, págs. 617-636
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay proposes a re-examination of the ideological content in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s journalistic production from 1894 to 1902. Centring on his republican paper El Pueblo (1894–1939), I argue that Hispanists have heretofore neglected the overtly political agenda of novels such as Arroz y tartana (1894), Flor de Mayo (1895), La barraca (1898), Entre naranjos (1900) and Cañas y barro (1902). Calling for a rereading of the Valencian cycle, I study the discursive tactics deployed by Blasco Ibáñez, in fiction and non-fiction form, as he unleashes a series of vitriolic attacks on a number of Restoration-era targets (turnismo, the Bourbon monarchy and the Catholic Church) while underscoring the exploitation of the proletariat.