Federico García Lorca - In the light of contradiction: desire in the poetry of Federico García Lorca

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Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garca Lorca

ROBERTA ANN QUANCE

Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge

2010

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The Trouble with Gender in Lorcas Suites: Surtidores, by Roberta Quance, which appeared in the Hispanic Review, 74, 4 (Fall 2006), 397418, 2006 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, is reprinted by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press. The cover image reproduces Merienda (1927) Federico Garca Lorca, VEGAP, Madrid 2009 (source: Banco de Imgenes, VEGAP).

This is a book whose origins go back a long way. I would like to acknowledge the kind advice given me by the late John Kronik (19312006), who read a draft of the first chapter of this project and encouraged me to see it through. I am only sorry I could not finish it in time for him to see how much of a help he had been.

I am also grateful to others: to Luis Fernndez Cifuentes of Harvard University, whose interest in my early work prompted me to develop it further; to Nigel Dennis of the University of St Andrews, who was kind enough to read the ms in draft and offer the benefit of his knowledge of Lorca and the avant-garde; to Mario Hernndez for his example and support over the years; and to Carlos Piera, whose acquaintance with the subject goes back to when we met at Cornell and began to discuss poetics. We have been talking ever since.

For their kind permission to consult the Lorca archives, I would like to thank the Fundacin Federico Garca Lorca in Madrid and its unfailingly helpful librarians. Thanks are due to the Research Office of Queens University and to Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Performing Arts for financial assistance with the publication. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to the editors at Legenda: to Richard Correll, who corrected my manuscript as sympathetically as if it were his own, and to Graham Nelson, who had the infinite patience to help me see it through.

R.Q., February 2010

Quotations from Federico Garca Lorcas work with the exception of his correspondence or manuscripts are drawn from the Obras completas, 4 vols, ed. by Miguel Garca-Posada (Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg/Crculo de Lectores, 199697). The most frequently cited titles of the works or collections are abbreviated as follows and refer to vol. I, Poesa, which appeared in 1996. Other writings are cited as OC followed by the volume number of the Obras completas and the page number.

In volume I (Poesa):

References to the poets correspondence are drawn from the Epistolario completo