Abstract
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War writing reveals the complexity of her anti-fascism as it related to questions surrounding the role of propaganda and violence in resisting fascism. By analysing contributions Warner made to Left Review, this article argues that she both wrote propaganda in support of the Spanish Republic’s war effort and critiqued the war (and its propaganda) for the human suffering it inflicted. It also suggests that, by critiquing the war in the form of lyric poetry, Warner was able to avoid the risk of rejection by a publication that strongly supported the Republic’s war effort.
Highlights
From this admission, we can see that Warner’s articles on Spain embodied an anti-fascist politics inseparable from her support for the Republican war effort, which she was not hesitant to propagandise
By analysing contributions Warner made to Left Review, this article argues that she both wrote propaganda in support of the Spanish Republic’s war effort and critiqued the war for the human suffering it inflicted
The word ‘conflicted’, here, is being used in two senses: first, to refer to the ambivalence of Warner’s writing, with regard to pacifism and violent resistance to fascism; and, second, to emphasise the fact that urgent struggle with such moral and tactical questions was compelled by the conflict in Spain
Summary
We can see that Warner’s articles on Spain embodied an anti-fascist politics inseparable from her support for the Republican war effort, which she was not hesitant to propagandise. Propaganda, Pacifism and Periodicals: Conflicted Anti-Fascism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Writing
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