«Love for our kind, too»: la militancia queer de Sylvia Townsend Warner desde la retaguardia durante la Guerra Civil española durante los años treinta

Abstract

The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 brought about a change of literary paradigm among the Leftist intelligentsia of the country. The experimentation encouraged by Modernism is thus gradually replaced with an increasingly ideological form of writing whose epic zeal and celebration of the virility of soldiers equally nurtured the works of those British poets who became involved by the Spanish antifascist cause. There exists nonetheless another kind of literature of the war in Spain written from the rearguard which examines the reality of the conflict from an intersectional angle. Such is the case of the political poetics of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Through a gender perspective, the contextualised study of the evolution of her poetics during the thirties can allow a revision of the dominant version of the Spanish Civil War imposed by the predominantly male cultural politics of the time.