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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463833403321

Titolo

Memory and trauma in the postwar Spanish novel : revisiting the past / / edited by Sarah Leggott and Ross Woods

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-531-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

863/.609

Soggetti

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Memory in literature

Psychic trauma in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Revisiting the Past: Memory and History; 1 The Ghosts of the Past; 2 Remembering the Canon; 3 War, History, and Memory in Arturo Barea's La forja de un rebelde; 4 Memory and History in Ana María Matute's Los soldados lloran de noche; II: Reading the Wounded Generation: Pluralistic Trauma; 5 Opening and Closing History's Wounds; 6 Representing Individual and Collective Trauma; 7 Ignacio Aldecoa's El fulgor y la sangre; III: Narrating Traumatic Experience: Uncovered Trauma; 8 "The Unsuspected Truth"

9 The Trauma of Coming of Age in Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle and Ana María Matute's Primera memoria10 The Cathartic Exercise of Memory in María Zambrano's Delirio y destino; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This book proposes a new direction for the study of Spanish literature of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, arguing that novels of this period merit a fresh critical approach that enriches existing perspectives on the Spanish novel during the first two decades of the Franco dictatorship. Essays take an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how



contemporary cultural theory relating to memory and trauma can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel.