Sarah Leggott

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses a number of recent novels by Spanish women writers that present women's experiences in Spain during the years of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. It considers these works in the context of the "memory boom" in contemporary Spain and draws on work from the fields of memory and trauma studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486681
• ISBN-10: 1611486688
• Artikelnr.: 47707705

Autorenporträt

By Sarah Leggott

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: Narrating the Legacy of War and Dictatorship in
Contemporary Spain: Gender, Trauma, and the Historical Memory Debates
Chapter Two: Dulce Chacón (1954-2003) Constructing a Gendered Postmemory:
Repression, Resistance, and Transgenerational Transmission in La voz
dormida (2002) Chapter Three: Rosa Regàs (1933-) Expiating the Sins of the
Mother: Childhood Memories of Retribution and Loss in Luna lunera (1999)
Chapter Four: Josefina Aldecoa (1926-2011) Challenging Cultural Taboos of
Age and Gender: The Voice of the Elderly Mother and Returned Exile in La
fuerza del destino (1997) Chapter Five: Carme Riera (1948-) Reconstructing
the Maternal Story: The Quest for Historical "Truth" and Self-Understanding
in La mitad del alma (2005) Chapter Six: Almudena Grandes (1960-)
Inscribing the Transgenerational Legacy of Exile: A Son's Inherited Guilt
and a Granddaughter's Quest for Reparation in El corazón helado (2007)
Conclusion Bibliography