Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain [electronic resource] /
Menezes, Alison Ribeiro de.author.
This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Embodying Memory in Spain; CHAPTER 1 Pathologies of the Past: Spain's "Belated" Memory Debates; CHAPTER 2 Embodied Memory and Human Rights: The New Idioms of Spain's Memory Debates; CHAPTER 3 Disrupted Genealogies and Generational Conflicts: Postmemorial Family Narratives; CHAPTER 4 Ghostly Embodiments: Enchanted and Disenchanted Childhoods; CHAPTER 5 Heroism and Affect: From Narratives of Mourning to Multidirectional Memories; Conclusion Memory and the Future: Beyond Pathology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological.
European literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
European Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Fiction.