Researchers from the University design the first Digital Laboratory for Novels on Spanish Historical Memory

## Researchers from the University design the first Digital Laboratory for Novels on Spanish Historical Memory

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The research group MNLAB, directed by researchers Luis Bautista Boned, José Martínez Rubio and Luz C. Souto, professors of the Department of Spanish of the University of Valencia, have designed the first Digital Laboratory for Novels on Spanish Historical Memory.

It is a digital space which can be accessed by clicking here, that integrates, on the one hand, an Observatory of theoretical reflection that aims to deepen in studies of Spanish literature memory, and on the other hand, a relational Database with information and data on works that reflect the traumatic Spanish past, focused on the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship.

The MNLAB project of the Department of Spanish of the University of Valencia, consists of thirty researchers of eight different universities: University of Valencia, Jaume I University, University of the Basque Country, University of Coruña, National University od Distance Education, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), National University of La Plata (Argentina) and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile). It also counts on the collaboration of other organisations such as AMESDE (Association for Social and Democratic Memory).

This Database aims to become a tool with an extraordinary potential for researchers in the field of literature by offering detailed data on themes represented in the works, predominant narrative conflicts, typology of characters appearing in the narratives or paratextual information about the authors and the different authorial generations or about the publishing houses that have published this type of works.

The aim, according to the researchers, is to “understand how the look to the traumatic past over different generations has changed, what conflicts have been prioritised, which personalities have generated a collective imaginary and which ideological sense has marked each literary era”.

On the other hand, they add, "with the Digital Laboratory we can analyse how the gaze of female authors has been compared to that of male authors, what narrative strategies have been the most used - from testimonies to family memory - or what capacity for intervention the large publishing houses have had to generate the literary boom of memory that has taken place in the 21st century".

Currently, the database has a first corpus of more than 710 works, from 1995 to 2023, written in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Asturian, English, French, Italian and German, which gives the tool an Iberian and international character. According to the researchers, “the Iberian perspective is essential for the understanding of the war and Franco’s dictatorship in all its territorial complexity, by putting into dialogue the different forms of recovery of democratic memory”.

This first phase of the Digital Laboratory is the result of the Emerging Project MNLAB (GV/2021/183), financed by the Valencian Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Valencian Government. In successive phases, the Laboratory aims to include literary works from different periods (a first period between 1939-1975; a second period between 1975-1995) and to make room for genres that complement the novels analysed, from comics, theatre or cinema.

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