Spain is different?
Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
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Spain is different?
Historical memory and the 'Two Spains' in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero’s Temblor
- 3 Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete’s Nox perpetua
- 4 The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera’s La locura de Dios
- 5 Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco’s Punto Omega
- 6 Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo’s Mentes de noche y hielo
- 7 ‘Fiery the angels rose’: José Miguel Pallarés and Amadeo Garrigós’s Tiempo prestado
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works cited