Fact and Fiction
Representations of the Asturian Revolution

Sarah Sanchez

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 60

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

1 January 2004  •  374pp

ISBN: 978-1-904350-13-2 (paperback)  •  RRP £25, $40

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This study examines a varied corpus of documentary and literary texts produced during the miners' revolution of October 1934 in Asturias. It demonstrates how a set of writers, whether authors by profession, politicians, intellectuals, or workers, responded to the most important episode of working-class revolutionary action in Asturias before the Civil War. The object is to consider the diverse factual and fictional textual representations of the critical events of October 1934 within the context of debates in Spain regarding politically committed literature and the avant-garde, and in particular to confirm the validity of the term 'non-fictional novel', prevalent in accounts of North American new journalism in the 1960s.

Bibliography entry:

Sanchez, Sarah, Fact and Fiction: Representations of the Asturian Revolution, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 60 (MHRA, 2004)

First footnote reference: 35 Sarah Sanchez, Fact and Fiction: Representations of the Asturian Revolution, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 60 (MHRA, 2004), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Sanchez, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Sanchez, Sarah. 2004. Fact and Fiction: Representations of the Asturian Revolution, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 60 (MHRA)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Sanchez 2004: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Sanchez 2004: 21.

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