Lost in transition : constructing memory in contemporary Spain / H. Rosi Song.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Song, H. Rosi, 1970- author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

History in popular culture.

History.

Historiography.

Spain--History--1975---Historiography.

Spain.

History in popular culture--Spain.

Collective memory--Spain.

Spain--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Spanish prose literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book examines how the political period following Franco's death, known as the Transition, is remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers, and TV producers born in the sixties and early seventies. Reading against the dominant historical account that celebrates Spain's successful democratisation, this study reveals how recent television, film, and fiction recreates this past from a generational perspective, linking the experience of the Transition to the country's present political and financial crises. Privileging above all an emotional connection, these artists use personal feelings about the past to analyse and revisit the history of the years in which they came of age. Lost in Transition considers the implications of adopting such a subjective positioning towards history that encourages an unending narrative, always in search of more meaningful and intimate connections with the past. Taking into account recent theoretical approaches to memory studies, this book proposes a new look at the production of memory in contemporary Spain and its close relationship to popular culture, shifting the focus from what is remembered to how the past is recalled affectively to become part of an ongoing and enduring everyday experience. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Transitional Memories 5

2 Ordinary Memories: Feeling the Past 28

3 The Moment of Memory 49

4 Mediating Memory (or Telling How It Happened) 88

5 Transitional Stories 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-204) and index.

ISBN:

9781781382875

1781382875

OCLC:

930829202