Literary representations of civil wars: a comparative study of novels dealing with the spanish civil war and the yugoslav conflict
Journal: Aisberg (University of Bergamo)
Year: 2017

A civil war is a violent conflict of dramatic political and social change that becomes a historical, cultural and literary marker. It is a period when laws, history and identities are reformulated through dual processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. This makes evident the symbolic dimension of civil war violence and accentuates the unstable, precarious and malleable nature of identity constructs, ideologies and history. The fact that these rapid transformations implicate massive human su