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Spain is different? (eBook, PDF)

Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone world and those from Spain, in which scientific explanations of events coexist with biblically-inspired plots, characters and imagery. This is the first book-length study of either science-fictional novels or apocalyptic literature in that country, analysing six such works between 1990 and 2005. Within a theoretical framework that includes critical and genre theories, archetypal criticism, and biblical scholarship, the book explains this phenomenon as a result of three historical factors: the 'Two Spains', Spanish 'difference', and the 'Pact of Silence', a tacit agreement that made justice and accountability impossible in the name of a peaceful transition to democracy. It repressed any processing of the historical trauma experienced during the Civil War and dictatorship, trauma that manifests itself symbolically in these fictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786838131
• Artikelnr.: 67582922

Autorenporträt

This collection will be suitable for University undergraduate and post-graduate students who are interested in Spanish literature or science fiction studies.