LEADER 04122oam 22005654a 450 001 9910786458703321 005 20240102180738.0 010 $a1-61249-323-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000111832 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001195493 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12522078 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195493 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162064 035 $a(PQKB)10250112 035 $a(OCoLC)879647861 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30119 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4742411 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000111832 100 $a20130920d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGenre fusion $ea new approach to history, fiction, and memory in contemporary Spain /$fSara J. Brenneis 210 1$aWest Lafayette, Indiana :$cPurdue University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) 225 0 $aPurdue studies in romance literatures ;$v60 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-55753-678-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: origins of genre fusion in Spain -- Montserrat Roig: testimony of the marginalized Catalan -- Carmen Martin Gaite: rewriting Spain's memory -- Carlos Blanco Aguinaga: the Spanish other in Mexico -- Javier Marias: genre fusion in the new millennium -- Afterword. 330 $aAlthough the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that fiction and nonfiction written by a single author and focused on the same historical moment deserve to be read side-by-side. By proposing a literary model that examines these genres together, Genre Fusion gives equal importance to fiction and historiography in Spain. In her book, Brenneis develops a new theory of "genre fusion" to show how authors who write both historiography and fiction produce a more accurate representation of the lived experience of Spanish history than would be possible in a single genre. Genre Fusionopens with a straightforward overview of the relationships among history, fiction, and memory in contemporary culture. While providing an up-to-date context for scholarly debates about Spain's historical memory, Genre Fusion also expands the contours of the discussion beyond the specialized territory of Hispanic studies. To demonstrate the theoretical necessity of genre fusion, Brenneis analyzes pairs of interconnected texts (one a work of literature, the other a work of historiography) written by a single author. She explores how fictional and nonfictional works by Montserrat Roig, Carmen Marti?n Gaite, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, and Javier Mari?as unearth the collective memories of Spain's past. Through these four authors, Genre Fusion traces the transformation of a country once enveloped in a postwar silence to one currently consumed by its own history and memory. Brenneis demonstrates that, when read through the lens of genre fusion, these Spanish authors shelve the country's stagnant official record of its past and unlock the collective and personal accounts of the people who constitute Spanish history. 606 $aCollective memory in literature 606 $aLiterature and history$zSpain 606 $aSpanish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHistorical fiction, Spanish$xHistory and criticism 607 $aSpain$xHistoriography 615 0$aCollective memory in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history 615 0$aSpanish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHistorical fiction, Spanish$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a863/.08109 700 $aBrenneis$b Sara J$01164320 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786458703321 996 $aGenre fusion$93852809 997 $aUNINA