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Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative
By Lorraine Ryan
Copyright 2014
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the period from 1931 to 2005. Accordingly, Ryan analyzes the spatial empowerment and disempowerment of Republican memory and identity in Dulce Chacón’s Cielos de barro, Ãngeles López’s Martina, la rosa... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Degenerative Space, Fertility, and Post-Transitional Justice in Dulce Chacón’s Cielos de barro; Chapter 2 The City and the Body in Ángeles López’s Martina, la rosa número trece; Chapter 3 The Nullification of Domestic Space in Alberto Méndez’s “Los girasoles ciegos”; Chapter 4 Spatial Assimilation and the Corruption of the Child in Emili Teixidor’s Pan negro; Chapter 5 A Resistant Barcelona: Hidden Transcripts in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La sombra del viento; Chapter 6 Rurality, the Second Space, and Global Memory Structures in Bernardo Atxaga’s El hijo del acordeonista; Chapter 7 Rememory, Hybridity, and in-between Space in José María Merino’s La sima; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Lorraine Ryan is a Birmingham fellow at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
"That said, the book is a very valuable contribution in which Ryan constructs a sustained meditation on the great significance of spatiality in the act of recollection. Through an incisive critical eye, a deep knowledge of memory theory and fastidious attention to the vicissitudes of Spanish history and its polemics in the new millenium, Ryan's work is an important reference point for those interested in the field of memory studies in contemporary Spain." -- William Viestenz, University of Minnesota, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
