Reception In Spain Research Articles

Experiences of male irregular migrants during their migration process and reception in Spain: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The causes behind migration movements are complex. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how several countries failed to respond to the virus adequately, while simultaneously infringing on people's rights. Male irregular migrants fled their countries of origin and embarked on a perilous migration journey to Spain. The highly restrictive COVID-19 measures and border closures affected the mobility of male irregular migrants, whose reception in the host country posed a challenge. It led to the establishment of emergency facilities to accommodate male irregular migrants affected by COVID-19, which had repercussions on their mental health. The aim of this study was to describe and understand the experiences of male irregular migrants throughout their migration process and reception in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative descriptive study. Sixteen male irregular migrants participated in this study. Data were collected between January and March 2023 through 16 one-on-one in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data using ATLAS.ti computer software. Three main themes emerged: (1) How the COVID-19 pandemic drove male irregular migrants to leave their countries of origin, (2) How COVID-19 lockdown policies affected the migration journey, and (3) Receiving male irregular migrants in a pandemic: a housing labyrinth marked by isolation and loneliness. The COVID-19 pandemic increased the social, employment and health inequalities experienced by male irregular migrants. Border closures exacerbated the migration journey and the social stigmatization of this group, who were seen as carriers of the virus in both transit and host countries. Strict control measures in emergency and reception facilities had a significant psychological impact on the male irregular migrants due to the social isolation they experienced. Health institutions should develop programs to guarantee the care needs of irregular migrants.

Revisiting The Confessions of Nat Turner: Censorship in its Spanish Translation

This paper studies the Spanish translation of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner. It observes the effects that institutional and self-censorship have had in Andrés Bosch’s version, first published in 1968 by Lumen as Las Confesiones de Nat Turner. Presented as the fictional autobiography of a historical figure, the novel is based on a failed revolt that took place in a Virginia plantation in 1831. The source context is described and contrasted with the target one, paying attention to the paratexts that have conditioned the novel’s reception in Spain. Accessing the General Archive of the Administration shows that Bosch’s translation was self-censored in a possible attempt to avoid the institutional intervention that would have delayed the book’s publication. Research also shows that this same version is the one being republished in the early twenty-first century.

The Contemporary Reception of a Feminist Icon: Translations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in Twenty-First Century Spain

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), is nowadays presented as a foundational text for modern feminism. Its rapid rendering into European languages such as French and German contrasts with the late translation into Spanish, which was not published until 1977. Nevertheless, the twenty-first century has witnessed a renewed interest in the figure of Wollstonecraft and her role as a precursor of the first feminist wave in Europe. Within this framework, this study examines Wollstonecraft’s public reception in Spain through contemporary (re)translations of her work. For this purpose, attention is paid to translations into Spanish and other co-official languages published during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, as well as the author’s public reception in Spanish newspapers. This research, thus, attests to the recent process of recovery of Wollstonecraft’s work in Spain and underscores her iconic role in contemporary local and international feminist discourses.

Traduire l’univers romancier de Virginie Despentes dans une perspective féministe. Un cas d’étude : Les Chiennes savantes

Following the results of a qualitative study on Virginie Despentes’ reception in Spain carried out between 2018 and 2022, we propose an analysis of one of the French author’s texts, considering existing theoretical contributions on translation studies from a feminist perspective. Through the comparative analysis between the source text and the Spanish translation of Despentes’ novel Les Chiennes savantes (1996), we reflect on the relationship nowadays between literature, translation and reception

«Вольфрам» Сесара Вальехо: 90 лет спустя (Fernández, Carlos, and Gianuzzi, Valentino. Sobre “El Tungsteno” de César Vallejo. Manchester: Trafalgar Square, 2021. 170 p.)

The review focuses on the book On “El Tungsteno” by César Vallejo (Sobre “El Tungsteno” de César Vallejo) by Carlos Fernández and Valentino Gianuzzi, published in 2021 in honor of the 90th anniversary of the publication of the novel in Spain. César Vallejo at the turn of the 1920s–1930s collaborated with the USSR, and his novel El Tungsteno became one of the key texts of his creative biography, especially its Soviet page. The book reconstructs the history of the writer's work on the text, identifies possible sources of the novel’s idea, and studies the book's reception in Spain, Latin America and the USSR. The novel El Tungsteno is considered in the context of César Vallejo’s literary contacts with the Soviet Union, his activities in Spain, and interaction with publishers. The second part of the book contains reviews of the novel from Latin American, Spanish and Soviet periodicals, as well as prefaces to the Soviet and Ukrainian editions translated into Spanish. The book by C. Fernández and V. Gianuzzi makes a significant contribution to the study of the work of C. Vallejo, to the study of his Soviet literary connections, outlines further trajectories of development of César Vallejo studies and fills many gaps in Latin American literary studies in Latin America, Europe and Russia.

Thomas More’s Portrayal in a Twentieth-Century Translation of Utopia

Ramón Esquerra i Clivillés (1909-1938), a Spanish intellectual born and raised in Barcelona, published in 1937 Utopia (El Estado Perfecto), a translation of Utopia (1516) by Thomas More. The translator prepared a large prologue in which he minutely details the life and personality of the humanist and introduces Utopia and its reception in Spain. As a result, this illuminating introductory section becomes a brief piece of literary criticism. The way More is presented and how Esquerra emphasizes some of his most personal features creates a particular image of the humanist: that of a saint. The information shown was carefully chosen by the translator, serving from of More’s latest published biographies to construct a useful context for the reader.

Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Evelyn Waugh’s War Novels in Francoist Spain

Evelyn Waugh’s experiences as captain in the Second World War represented the raw material for several novels, such as Put out More Flags (1942), Men at Arms (1952) and Brideshead Revisited (1945). These novels depict, on the one hand, the experiences of once immature bright young people who are now confronting the war reality, and, on the other, they satirize the military bureaucracy and portray the nostalgia for the conservative age of Catholic English nobility, which disappeared during the war. It could be assumed that these three novels might have been well received in Franco’s Spain as the Catholic theme as well as Waugh’s right-wing conservative beliefs could have influenced the censors’ approval or disapproval. Thus, the present paper will analyse the reception in Spain of Put out More Flags, Men at Arms and Brideshead Revisited considering the reports enclosed in the censorship files guarded at AGA (General Archive of the Administration) in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. These documents reveal that Waugh’s novels were not easily approved by the Spanish censors during the Francoist dictatorship.

The Fourth Wall and “The Wall”: GoT’s Reception in Argentina, Spain, and Germany

HBO’s global success, Game of Thrones (2011–2019), is known for having an active international fan base. In this qualitative interpretive study of the show’s reception in Spain, Germany, and Argentina, I examine themes emerged from interviews with twenty-one viewers. I interpret their readings on the series together with online and offline engagement practices. Rather than marked cultural contrasts, the study identifies common patterns across nations: varying degrees of analytic and emotional engagement leading to diverse fan subjectivities within their “locality.” Theoretically, I draw from Mittell as well as Jenkins et al. to argue how GoT provides an arena for casual viewers and die-hard fans to move on both axes of engagement: drillability and spreadability. To finalize, I reflect on dominant academic discourses that reinforce notions of proper fandom and propose to apply anthropology’s cultural relativism and respect for the emic perspective to acknowledge agency.

Sexualidad y religión en el tardofranquismo. La recepción de la Humanae Vitae en España y la crisis de autoridad de la iglesia

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el contexto en el que se publicó la encíclica Humanae vitae (1968) de Pablo VI y su recepción en España. Se trata de explorar sus antecedentes e impacto en el marco del Concilio Vaticano II y también del llamado “desenganche” de la Iglesia en el tardofranquismo. La controversia que se generó cuestionó la propia autoridad moral de la Iglesia. Además, se inserta en un contexto en el que se estaba produciendo una importante transformación en la concepción católica de la sexualidad, ligada asimismo a un vivo debate sobre el control de la natalidad en el que la popularización de la “píldora” tuvo gran peso.

Censoring poetics through translation: the filtered reception of Sylvia Plath in Franco’s Spain

Inthis article I analyze Sylvia Plath’s reception in Spain during the Francoist dictatorship. Considering the feminist features that the author and her oeuvrepresent, I examine the conclusions drawn by the Censorship Board when the Spanish publishing houses requested to issue Plath’s works in translation. The censorship and import files stored at the General Archive of the Administrationin Madrid confirm thatseveral publishers repeatedly applied for permission to translate her only novel, The Bell Jar, into Spanish and Catalan from 1967 to 1982; a Spanish compilation of her poems in 1974; and to import her famous poetry collection, Ariel,in 1968. Nevertheless, the censors’ notes and verdicts reveal that her literary depth was neither admired nor understood by the ones who authorized, censored, or rejected the different editions of her work.

Dos homenajes a Beethoven: los cuartetos de Pere Tintorer (1814-1891) y Quintín Esquembre (1885-1965)

El presente estudio constituye una aportación a la historia de la recepción de Ludwig van Beethoven en España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y primer tercio del siglo XX, con especial atención a la creación musical, centrándose —dentro del marco del contexto histórico-musical del período— en dos composiciones camerísticas, una de Pere Tintorer (1814-1891) y otra de Quintín Esquembre (1885-1965). Ambos títulos se refieren explícitamente, en la portada de las respectivas partituras, al músico alemán, por lo cual se plantea la cuestión de cómo los dos españoles llevaron a cabo su aproximación al supuesto modelo y cuáles son los recursos compositivos empleados. El Cuarteto con piano en Do menor (ca. 1865) de Tintorer, titulado Un Souvenir de L. van Beethoven (en un movimiento, de forma durchkomponiert bipartita), toma un préstamo motívico procedente, probablemente, del Trío con piano en Do menor op. 1 n.º 3 de Beethoven. Empleado a modo de motto, dicho motivo define la segunda parte de la obra al estar reiteradamente citado, en concreto, en la primera sección y en la coda, preñada esta última de un intenso trabajo motívico. En cambio, el Cuarteto de cuerda en Sol menor (1926) de Esquembre, designado Homenaje a Beethoven, renuncia a citas literales, optando en su lugar por la evocación deliberada de los tradicionales caracteres de sus cuatro movimientos. Estos están cíclicamente relacionados por medio de una “célula generadora” común, de la cual derivan concisos elementos rítmico-diastemáticos que, en parte, remiten a la tipología básica de diseños beethovenianos, actuando —de forma similar a estos— como “motivos de desarrollo” (K. von Fischer, 1948; 2.ª ed. 1972).

Beethoven en L’Associació de Música “Da Cámera” de Barcelona (1913-1936)

La finalidad de este trabajo es analizar la presencia de la música de Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) en la Asociación de Música de Cámara de Barcelona (1913-1936). Al mismo tiempo, se pretende comparar los resultados de esta investigación con los datos que ya poseemos de la sociedad gemela en Madrid: La Sociedad Filarmónica (1901-1936), para así aportar nuevos datos sobre la historia de la recepción de Beethoven en España en el primer tercio del siglo XX.

The Silence of Others: A conversation with the filmmakers

The Silence of Others comes back to a past that doesn’t pass: how the Franco dictatorship (1936–1975) has shaped Spain and how the period that followed, the “transition,” has led to a conflicting collective memory by silencing the victims. Seven years in the making, The Silence of Others, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s documentary, follows an unfolding lawsuit launched by a group of victims and survivors determined to seek justice. Unable to prosecute their crimes in Spain, they decided to turn to Argentina with the hope that a judge could apply the principle of universal jurisdiction to open an investigation. Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar agreed to talk to Violence about their film and its reception in Spain and abroad, and about how art could pave the way to exiting violence.

La economía en las colecciones divulgativas del primer tercio del siglo XX: los Manuales Labor

In the nineteenth century the collections of «popular science» manuals began to appear in Europe. With ency-clopedic ambition, clear language, manageable format, attractive binding and affordable price, they tried to make accessible to the general public a wide variety of knowledge with simplicity, brevity and rigor. In the first third of the 20th century Spain, the two most relevant collections were the Soler-Gallach Manuals and the Labor Manuals. This paper analyzes how the Economy was treated in the Labor collection, which was an im-portant way of vulgarization and popular dissemination of economic ideas (whereas the Soler-Gallach Manu-als focused only on practical training for the business world). The Labor Manuals —much more ambitious thematically and based on translations of foreign works— contributed to the reception in Spain of the German Historical School

TRADUCCIONES ESPAÑOLAS DE LA OBRA DE ANNA DE NOAILLES

Este trabajo, que pretende contribuir a un mejor conocimiento dela recepción española de escritoras francesas del rico periodoliterario del fin de siglo y el primer tercio del siglo XX, se centra enla figura de Anna de Noailles (1876-1933, de soltera Anna BibescoBassarava de Brancovan). Tras poner de manifiesto el papel degran figura social y literaria que jugó en la Francia de su tiempo,se pasa al estudio de su recepción en España, básicamente graciasa testimonios en la prensa de la época, y se insiste en particular enlas traducciones de su obra, gran parte de ellas diseminadas enprensa y en antologías, aunque también en forma de libro, debidasprincipalmente a Tomás Borrás (1931), Rosa Chacel (1948) y MiriamAlonso Ribeiro (2011).

Reading themselves through an icon: pedagogic episteme and functional differentiation as moulds for John Dewey’s reception in Spain, 1898–1939

ABSTRACT Dewey’s selective and moulding reception in Spain (1898–1936) was determined by the academic and professional “episteme” as “externationalisation mould”. Dewey was translated by members of the bourgeois-reformist Institución Libre de Enseñanza mainly after 1925, as his thought didn’t fit in their “episteme ” and political project. Searching for justification, they construed him as one of them, an Ideal-Realist, syncretising Pragmatism with Spiritualism- Vitalism, and rejecting his Naturalism, social definition of morality and communitarian-participative democracy as contrary to elitist nationalising regeneration. Dewey became a prestige brand and adverecundiam argument for supporting different stances. The failure of top-down regeneration and the problems of the extension of schooling, and pedagogic and scientific institutionalisation made possible a deeper reception. Socialist and teachers’ self-educational participative practices and professionalisation allowed practitioners to understand Dewey. Practitioners used him to defend a socialising and active-cooperative education through the project method, and the republican school, as remedies against the central Spanish social aetiology, individualism. Dewey gained specific illocutionary meanings: school teachers used him to claim intellectual independence from higher pedagogy. However, teachers, as academics, maintained anthropological and social-educational dualism and didn’t fully embrace Naturalism or a communitarian democratic-participative school that would have questioned their role as community reformers.

La recepción de la historia de conceptos en España. En la encrucijada entre la reflexión teórica y la aplicación práctica

En este trabajo se aborda una suerte de historia de la historia de conceptos desarrollada por Reinhart Koselleck. En concreto, se procura trazar su periplo en el mundo académico español, incorporando los inicios de su recepción, los resultados materiales de la aplicación de su propuesta y un esbozo de los grupos de investigadores que han aprovechado críticamente su obra. En este sentido, destacan especialmente dos perfiles, que se corresponden con filiaciones académicas distintas: una vertiente vinculada a la filosofía y otra de corte historiográfico, que reflejan, a su vez, la riqueza de una obra como la koselleckiana, en la que conviven elementos procedentes de distintas disciplinas, como la filosofía, la lingüística y la historia, entre otras. Esta diversidad de componentes se manifiesta en la constitución de un potente cuerpo teórico en combinación con un elaborado aparato metodológico.

Froebel and the teaching of botany: the garden in the Kindergarten Model School of Madrid

ABSTRACTThis contribution looks at the garden that Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) founded in Bad Blankenburg in 1838 in order to understand the proposal presented at the Kindergarten Model School of Madrid for training teachers in 1879 (the Schools introduced new teaching methods or systems and, at the same time, trained the teachers in their application). Based on a description of the garden we analyse, from a botanical standpoint, the educational intentions of the original garden for children in the Kindergarten of Blankenburg and the modifications made to fit it to a Spanish context. Among other things, we study the introduction of productive work into the education curriculum of the youngest pupils, together with the floristic configuration and composition of the garden. The initial Froebel model in Spain underwent several modifications and adaptations, and, in the case of the garden itself, these modifications were reflected in the form, composition, and therefore didactic intention of the proposal. Its reception in Spain shows similarities and differences with respect to the original concept, which must be analysed in the context in which they were produced. Moreover, the differences in interpreting the method underscore its application in Spain and subsequent reinterpretations over the years.

Female Figures and Censorship: The Reception of Stefan Zweig in Spain (1946-1960)

The works of Stefan Zweig have always experienced a very lively reception in Spain from its very first publication in this country in the 1930s. Since the early 2000s his works have been reedited and everything that contains his signature easily finds a readership. This broad reception in Spain has inspired me to explore the nature of the success of Zweig’s stories. As the focus of my research paper is set how Zweig reception was possible during Franco’s regime in Spain. How it was possible despite the topics and the female image they show, and how publishing houses never stop trying to publish new editions, they knew that readership were demanding it. This descriptive study has been conducted following the evidence that is possible to find in Archivo General de la Administración and studying the comments and reason given by censors in the different reports about in his novellas Amok, Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem leben einer Frau and Brief einer Unbekannten in order to find an explanation that can justify the success or failure of Zweig works in Spain during this historical period