Author: Tatjana Gajic<br />File Type: pdf<br />Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War the regimes supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajicanalyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. InParadoxes of Stasis,Gajic argues that the combination of Francoisms long duration and the uncertainty surroundingits ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regimes politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genreslegal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoirGajic examines the different responses to the underlying tensionsof the Francoist erain the context of the regimes attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers critiques of Francoisms endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasisreveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance. **