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Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
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Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers,
having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra
interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish
Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to
her, 18 in total, confirm her pre-eminence. This book situates
Grandes´s novels within gendered, philosophical, and mnemonic
theoretical concepts that illuminate hidden dimensions of her
much-studied work. Lorraine Ryan considers and expands on existing
critical work on Grandes´s oeuvre, proposing new avenues of
interpretation and understanding. She seeks to debunk the arguments
of those who portray Grandes as the proponent of a sectarian,
eminently biased Republican memory by analysing the wide variety of
gender and perpetrator memories that proliferate in her work. The
intersection of perpetrator memory with masculinity, ecocriticism,
medical ethics and the child’s perspectives confirms Grandes’
nuanced engagement with Spanish memory culture. Departing from a
philosophical basis, Ryan reconfigures the Republican victim in the
novels as a vulnerable subject who attempts to flourish, thus
refuting the current critical opinion of the victim as
overly-empowered. The new perspectives produced in this monograph
do not aim to suggest that Grandes is an advocate of perpetrator
memory; rather, it suggests that Grandes is committed to a more
pluralistic idea of memory culture, whereby her novels generate
understanding of multiple victim, perpetrator and gender memories,
an analysis that produces new and meaningful engagements with these
novels. Thus, Ryan contends that Grandes´s historical novels are
infinitely more complex and nuanced than heretofore conceived.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Lorraine Ryan
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
172 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-75764-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-367-75764-8 |
Barcode: |
9780367757649 |
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