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Spain is different? - Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions... Spain is different? - Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions (Hardcover)
Dale Knickerbocker
R1,763 Discovery Miles 17 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone world and those from Spain, in which scientific explanations of events coexist with biblically-inspired plots, characters and imagery. This is the first book-length study of either science-fictional novels or apocalyptic literature in that country, analysing six such works between 1990 and 2005. Within a theoretical framework that includes critical and genre theories, archetypal criticism, and biblical scholarship, the book explains this phenomenon as a result of three historical factors: the 'Two Spains', Spanish 'difference', and the 'Pact of Silence', a tacit agreement that made justice and accountability impossible in the name of a peaceful transition to democracy. It repressed any processing of the historical trauma experienced during the Civil War and dictatorship, trauma that manifests itself symbolically in these fictions.

Out of This World - Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium (Hardcover): Rachel S Cordasco Out of This World - Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium (Hardcover)
Rachel S Cordasco; Contributions by Emad El-Din Aysha, Sonja Fritzsche, Edward Gauvin, Maria Haskins, …
R1,472 Discovery Miles 14 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.

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