The periphery as center. Literature Spanish from the pages of the BBMP (1939-2018)

Abstract

Despite the predominance of aurisecular texts published in the journal during the dictatorship, the other areas of our literature gained weight and importance in the BBMP as the years went by, for obvious reasons of historical distance, but also due to processes of prestige and legitimation academics. The critical distance required from authors, many times still alive, is the main cause that explains the attention to postwar literature from the seventies. To this we must add reasons of a political and ideological nature, and the disappearance of mechanisms of censorial control.It is essential to point out the work that the Bulletin has developed in the generation of another center of irradiation of critical voice from the supposed periphery (in front of the center of the Madrid capital), which has also established solid bridges between the publication and the literature and culture of his territory. In parallel, we have observed two facets in its behavior as a journal: its discovery nature, in the huge publication of unpublished documentation (archives, correspondence, manuscripts, etc.) that endorses the Boletín's commitment to thorough and solid research, which feels the bases of other future studies and contributes to the enrichment of the knowledge of the scientific community; and, on the other hand, its testimonial character, based on sections such as obituaries or the various articles published in commemoration of centenarians or tributes.