Spain is different? : historical memory and the 'two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions / Dale Knickerbocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knickerbocker, Dale, 1962- author.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Iberian and Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in literature.

Literature.

Spain--In literature.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2021]

Summary:

This study explains the apparently paradoxical coexistence of scientific and religious world views in Spanish apocalyptic fictions from 1990-2005 as a result of the traditional conflict between conservative and liberal Spain, Spanish exceptionalism, and the lack of reckoning for crimes committed during the Civil War and dictatorship during Spain's transition to democracy, before contextualising these fictions globally.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series Editors' Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Homo narrans, homo sapiens

or, why tell stories?

Apocalypse now (and then): a beginner's guide to the end

A Spanish (hi)story

Metanarrative 1: Two Spains

Metanarrative 2: Spain is different

Metanarrative 3: The myth of the Transition

Apocalypse and sublimation

Why science fiction?

The texts

2 Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero's Temblor

History, science fiction and the fantastic

Mining the monomyth

Apocalypse

3 Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua

Apocalypse Nox

Speaking of science, fictionally

The once and future us

Alienation and the technological grotesque

4 The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera's La locura de Dios

A dialogics of the Two Spains

or, a Llull in the action

A most apocalyptic apocalypse

A steampunk City of God?

5 Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco's Punto Omega

Getting to the point: Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point theory

Science fiction 1: Being human

Science fiction 2: Observe - the observer

Posthuman, all too human: the posthuman apocalypse

The end of ideologies - or the birth of global totalitarianism?

6 Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo's Mentes de noche y hielo

Past imperfect, future imperfect

Conclusion: the birth of ambivalent gods

7 'Fiery the angels rose': José Miguel Pallarés and Amadeo Garrigós's Tiempo prestado

The science fictional and Clarke's third law

Apocalypse: of angels and monsters

'Your brother will rise again'

Creation and evolution

'Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life'

Afterword

Notes

Works cited.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Knickerbocker, Dale Spain is different?

ISBN:

9781786838148