Telling tales : storytelling in contemporary Spain / edited by Anne L. Walsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsh, Anne L., editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Storytelling in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

xviii, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This volume delves deeply into the role played by stories and storytelling in shaping, controlling and mapping present-day Spain, and examines fiction in various manifestations and genres, especially written and filmic. It contrasts such stories and their context with the past, investigating the differences and similarities between spatially and geographically varying narrations in order to tease out the link between the time of telling and the act of living. Throughout the book, scholars look separately at this phenomenon, and their findings reveal a close bond between events occurring in the real world and the relating of fictional stories. Particularly in Spain, the geographic space of interest here, storytelling is used both as catharsis and didactically. Authors and filmmakers find inspiration in everyday occurrences, and, while there is nothing unusual in that, the interest here lies in the consequent transformation of these occurrences into fascinating stories that attempt to make sense of chaotic events, connect those events temporally, and explore the meaning of the consequent coherence. Stories are at the very essence of humanity, be they fictional or based on everyday reality. This collection focuses specifically on Spain where easily identifiable features of history (such as the Spanish Civil War, the Franco Dictatorship, transition, democracy, and the global economic crisis) have had a major impact on everyday life. The narratives emerging show clear evidence of that impact, with an emphasis on such themes as the significance of memory, the impossibility and instability of such memory, the chaotic nature of life, and the place of the nation/state in the psyche of the individual, with emerging themes investigating the role of solidarity and empathy in the empowerment of the individual. This volume in informed by the shift that occurred in the twentieth century towards a world of unstable parameters, whereby whatever knowledge that is received must be questioned as to the extent of its authenticity since that knowledge is always affected by memory, experience, and time, all subjective phenomena in themselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Reflections on Storytelling in Spain / Anne L Walsh

"Somos lo que somos porque fuimos lo que fuimos" : La vigencia del pasado en la España actual en El asedio de Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Manuel Cabello Piño

La revisión de una leyenda olvidada y su impacto sobre la contemporaneidad : El caso de la "Pastora" en Donde nadie te encuentre de Alicia Giménez-Bartlett / Francesca Crippa

Aventis y mitologías : oralidad y memoria histórica en la narrativa de Marsé y Muñoz Molina / Álvaro Fernández

Neo-western español para el siglo XXI : Antiguas y lejanas historias narradas desde nuevas y cercanas perspectivas / Jorge González del Pozo

The Quest for Historical "Truth" and Self-Understanding : Carme Riera's La mitad del alma / Sarah Leggott

Deforming in the Mirror : Eduardo Mendoza's Esperpento Techniques in El enredo de la bolsa y la vida / Victoria Ríos Castaño

Storytelling in the Novels of Julio Llamazares / Antonio Sánchez

Shadowing Laforet : Memory and the Imaginary in the Worlds of Espido Freire and Carmen Martín Gaite / Myriam del Río Hernández

From Liquid to Illiquid Modernity? : Fear, Anxiety, and the 2008 Crisis in Spanish Narrative of the New Millennium / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

"Sad, Lonely and Afraid"; "Losing my Mind"; "Growing Old Gracefully, Full of Accumulated Wisdom"... : Perceptions and Images of Older Women in Contemporary Spanish Literature / Lilit Thwaites

Saving Spain, Building Spaniards : Mapping Morality in Contemporary Spanish Narrative / Barrie Wharton

Los zombis como recurso estils̕tico del negrótico y de la novela bestia en la literatura española / Osvaldo Di Paolo & Nadina Olmedo

A las puertas del principio o fin de siglo, dos almas exiliadas en transición : Javier Marías (Corazón tan blanco, 1992) y Ray Loriga (Tokio ya no nos quiere, 1999) / Carles Murillo Mir

Para qué sirve la literatura : una lectura comparada de las ficciones narrativas de Suso de Toro / Rodrigo Pardo Fernández

La vida no es contable : Storytelling in Javier María's Tu rostro mañana / Seána Ryan

La política menipea de Enrique Vila-Matas / Júlia González de Canales Carcereny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1443872474

9781443872478

OCLC:

900828180

Publisher Number:

99963497589