Spain is different?
Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2021
288 pages
978-1-78683-813-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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No
File size
4,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-813-1 (9781786838131)
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Spain is different?
Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
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12/2021
University of Wales Press
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Dale Knickerbocker is McMahon Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He specialises in Hispanic science fiction, horror and the fantastic, and is author of Juan Jose Millas: the obsessive-compulsive aesthetic, and editor of Lingua Cosmica: Essays on World Science Fiction.
Content
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero's Temblor
Chapter 3. Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua
Chapter 4. The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera's La locura de Dios
Chapter 5. Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco's Punto Omega
Chapter 6. Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo's Mentes de noche y hielo
Chapter 7. 'Fiery the angels rose': Jose Miguel Pallares and Amadeo Garrigos's Tiempo prestado
Afterword
Works cited
Index
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero's Temblor
Chapter 3. Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua
Chapter 4. The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera's La locura de Dios
Chapter 5. Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco's Punto Omega
Chapter 6. Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo's Mentes de noche y hielo
Chapter 7. 'Fiery the angels rose': Jose Miguel Pallares and Amadeo Garrigos's Tiempo prestado
Afterword
Works cited
Index
