Propaganda, Pacifism and Periodicals: Conflicted Anti-Fascism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Writing

Abstract

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War writing reveals the complexity of her anti-fascism as it related to questions surrounding the role of propaganda and violence in resisting fascism. By analysing contributions Warner made to Left Review, this article argues that she both wrote propaganda in support of the Spanish Republic’s war effort and critiqued the war (and its propaganda) for the human suffering it inflicted. It also suggests that, by critiquing the war in the form of lyric poetry, Warner was able to avoid the risk of rejection by a publication that strongly supported the Republic’s war effort.

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): STW

Title: The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

Publisher: UCL Press

ISSN (Electronic): 2398-0605

Publication date (Electronic): 12 April 2019

Volume: 18

Issue: 2

Pages: 48-57

Affiliations

[1 ] University of Bristol, UK

[* ] Correspondence: j.oleary@ 123456bristol.ac.uk

Article

DOI: 10.14324/111.444.stw.2019.14

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2019, Jake O’Leary

License:

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2019.14

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Product

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