| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Rewriting the past as cultural capital: sacred violence in Carme Riera's Dins el darrer blau -- Reader/text solidarity in decoding the past in Carme Riera's La Meitat de l'anima -- Women, writing, and the Spanish Civil War in La Voz Dormida by Dulce Chacon -- The impossible invention of history and the hero in Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina and La velocidad de la luz -- Television, simulacra, and power in three works by Ray Loriga -- Textual violence and the hyperreal in De todo lo visible y lo invisible by Lucia Etxebarria -- (Inter)textuality in Jose Angel Manas's Historias del Kronen and la Pella |
| Summary |
"What does literature reveal about a country's changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, structure, and language." "Contemporary Spanish authors are rethinking the way the novel with its narrative powers can define a specific cultural identity. Recent Spanish novels by Carme Riera, Dulee Chacon, Javier Cercas, Ray Loriga, Lucia Etxebarria, and Jose Angel Manas (published from 1995 to 2008) particularly highlight the tension that exists between historical memory and urban youth culture. The novels discussed in this study reconfigure the individual's relationship to narrative, history, and reality through their varied interpretations of Spanish history with its common threads of national and personal violence."--Jacket |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9781612491264 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History in literature.
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Literature and history -- Spain -- History
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Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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History in literature
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Literature
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Literature and history
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Spanish fiction
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Roman.
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Spanisch.
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- In literature
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| Subject |
Spain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009053887 |
| ISBN |
9781612491264 |
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161249126X |
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