Yoke and Arrows - Softcover

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In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War, the radical poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered in Granada by anti-Republican militia. During the early months of the war thousands of Granadinos were killed by these execution squads. Particularly vicious were the Black Squads, many of whom were members of the Fascist Falange. Their symbol was the yoke and arrows (el yugo y las flechas), the symbol of the fifteenth-century Catholic monarchs Isabel and Fernando, who expelled the Moors and the Jews from Spain. Yoke and Arrows tells the story of those few desperate weeks in 1936, following Lorca's journey from Madrid and a life of celebration and creativity to his pre-dawn death in the mountains above Granada. It also contemplates the parallels between atrocities and acts of retribution across cultures and histories and asserts the responsibility of poetry to bear witness to violation and cruelty in our own violent age.

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