Leslie J. Harkema

Leslie J. Harkema is an associate professor of Spanish at Baylor University, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary Iberian literatures and cultures. She is the author of Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura (University of Toronto Press, 2017).


Advertisement

Writing on Public Books

Miguel de Unamuno in Spain’s Memory Battle

As fascist armies conquered much of Spain, a writer publicly and famously denounced high-ranking officers right to their faces. Or did he?