Spain is different?: Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
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| Management number | 201805837 | Release Date | 2025/10/08 | List Price | $36.87 | Model Number | 201805837 | ||
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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.
Weight: 462g
Dimension: 144 x 224 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786838124
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