Visualizing an Aesthetics of Resistance:The Role of Sight in 19th and 20th Century (Neo)Realism on the Iberian Peninsula.

Spanish Literature and Cinema;Portuguese Literature and Cinema;Comparative Literature;Iberian Studies;Screen Arts;Visual Culture;Screen Arts and Cultures;General and Comparative Literature;Romance Languages and Literature;West European Studies;Humanities;Romance Language and Literature: Spanish

ten Haaf, RachelFerreira, Ana Paula ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Spanish Literature and Cinema;    Portuguese Literature and Cinema;    Comparative Literature;    Iberian Studies;    Screen Arts;    Visual Culture;    Screen Arts and Cultures;    General and Comparative Literature;    Romance Languages and Literature;    West European Studies;    Humanities;    Romance Language and Literature: Spanish;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This dissertation examines the ways that realism and later, neo-realism, functioned as a means of aesthetic resistance on the Iberian Peninsula by questioning the role sight played in organizing and controlling perception. In order to address this, I concentrate on two specific moments: the Napoleonic invasion of 1807-8 and the contemporaneous rise of realist aesthetics, and the lengthy twentieth century dictatorships of Spain’s Francisco Franco and Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (and the Estado Novo). I contend that realism became the dominant method of aesthetic resistance because it was linked to a historical moment of resistance, that of the Spanish uprising against the Napoleonic invasion. It was, thus, uniquely capable of exposing and destabilizing the tension between sight as a means of oppressing society through organization and control and as a means of resisting that control by making it visible. In my first chapter, I explore the way Goya and Galdós depicted the events of the 2nd of May Spanish uprising against the Napoleonic invasion in such a way as to question how reliable observation could be in building a national consciousness. In my second chapter, I examine the rise of the corrida as a metaphor for Spanish legitimacy under the regime of Francisco Franco. Through readings of Iganacio Aldecoa’s short stories ;;Los pozos” and ;;Caballo de pica” alongside Carlos Saura’s film, Los golfos, I argue that sight becomes the way of undoing this same discourse. Finally, in my third chapter, I look at the way optics functioned as a means of resistance against the Portuguese Estado Novo in the texts of Alves Redol (Gaibeus) and Carlos de Oliveira/Fernando Lopes’s versions of Uma Abelha na Chuva.