'Yo procedo por explosión violenta y ruidosamente': Rereading the Political in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's fin-de-siècle Journalistic Production. Issue 6 (June 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cameron, Bryan
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of Hispanic studies. Volume 95:Issue 6(2018)
• Page Start: 617
• Page End: 636
• Publication Date: 2018-06
• Subjects: Spanish philology -- Periodicals; Portuguese philology -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 860.5
• DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2018.36
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-3839

Abstract

Abstract : This essay proposes a re-examination of the ideological content in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's journalistic production from 1894 to 1902. Centring on his republican paper El Pueblo (1894–1939), I argue that Hispanists have heretofore neglected the overtly political agenda of novels such as Arroz y tartana (1894), Flor de Mayo (1895), La barraca (1898), Entre naranjos (1900) and Cañas y barro (1902). Calling for a rereading of the Valencian cycle, I study the discursive tactics deployed by Blasco Ibáñez, in fiction and non-fiction form, as he unleashes a series of vitriolic attacks on a number of Restoration-era targets ( turnismo, the Bourbon monarchy and the Catholic Church) while underscoring the exploitation of the proletariat.