We celebrate the centenary of Lorca and the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman from the place where Lorca premiered his ode to the American bard in Madrid. We will explore the utopian figure of Whitman as a surprising common thread in the eternal friendship between Lorca and his contemporary Emilio Prados.
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Elizabeth Moe, doctoral student at Rutgers University (USA) in Hispanic Culture and Literature, cultural manager and co-founder of the Unamuno Author Series in Madrid. His doctoral thesis (“The Embodied Lorquian Archive”) examines how poets, filmmakers, and theater and performance artists since 1936 have created provocative corporal and textual expressions to recover and regenerate Federico García Lorca's body-corpus, invoking the discourse of memory. historical, reallocating public space and re-imagining its archive.
The conference is part of the programming of The Night of the Books 2019.
It will take place in Spanish and will last approximately one hour.