History, violence, and the hyperreal
Subtitle: representing culture in the contemporary Spanish novel
By: Kathryn Everly.
Series: Purdue studies in Romance literatures
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557535580
Subjects: Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Spain -- History; History in literature; Spain -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rewriting the past as cultural capital: sacred violence in Carme Riera's Dins el darrer blau; title: Reader/text solidarity in decoding the past in Carme Riera's La Meitat de l'anima; title: Women, writing, and the Spanish Civil War in La Voz Dormida by Dulce Chacon; title: The impossible invention of history and the hero in Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina and La velocidad de la luz; title: Television, simulacra, and power in three works by Ray Loriga; title: Textual violence and the hyperreal in De todo lo visible y lo invisible by Lucia Etxebarria; title: (Inter)textuality in Jose Angel Manas's Historias del Kronen and la Pella.