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In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature."
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature.
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