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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leggott, Sarah, editor.

Woods, Ross, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish fiction.

Memory in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-531-2

OCLC:

870587095