The Pan-Hispanic View of Aurora de Albornoz: Poetry, Memory And Revolution

Abstract

The work of Aurora de Albornoz (Luarca 1926—Madrid 1990), bothin its creative side and in its vast academic production, manages to put in dialogue the cultural and political traditions of Spain and Latin America. In her book Cronilíricas the author recalls her stay at the Puerto Rico University during her exile, the influence of Juan Ramón Jiménez in her poetry, the political awareness that impels her to return to Spain in the late 1960s and all the efforts of political change and cultural claim madeduring the Transición. In these memoirs published posthumously, Albornoz combines an aesthetic and ethical vision of the world that links the Spanish American Modernism and the democratic processes of the last quarter of the century on both sides of the Atlantic. She builds a view ofthe Spanish history of the last century in which poetry, democratic change and fraternal relations with the American republics delineate her ownidentity as a writer and a committed intellectual.