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Spain is different? Historical memory and the Two Spains in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions.
This study explains the apparently paradoxical coexistence of scientific and religious world views in Spanish apocalyptic fictions from 1990-2005 as a result of the traditional conflict between conservative and liberal Spain, Spanish exceptionalism, and the lack of reckoning for crimes committed dur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Iberian and Latin American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Homo narrans, homo sapiens
- or, why tell stories?
- Apocalypse now (and then): a beginner's guide to the end
- A Spanish (hi)story
- Metanarrative 1: Two Spains
- Metanarrative 2: Spain is different
- Metanarrative 3: The myth of the Transition
- Apocalypse and sublimation
- Why science fiction?
- The texts
- 2 Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero's Temblor
- History, science fiction and the fantastic
- Mining the monomyth
- Apocalypse
- 3 Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua
- Apocalypse Nox
- Speaking of science, fictionally
- The once and future us
- Alienation and the technological grotesque
- 4 The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera's La locura de Dios
- A dialogics of the Two Spains
- or, a Llull in the action
- A most apocalyptic apocalypse
- A steampunk City of God?
- 5 Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco's Punto Omega
- Getting to the point: Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point theory
- Science fiction 1: Being human
- Science fiction 2: Observe
- the observer
- Posthuman, all too human: the posthuman apocalypse
- The end of ideologies
- or the birth of global totalitarianism?
- 6 Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo's Mentes de noche y hielo
- Past imperfect, future imperfect
- Conclusion: the birth of ambivalent gods
- 7 'Fiery the angels rose': José Miguel Pallarés and Amadeo Garrigós's Tiempo prestado
- The science fictional and Clarke's third law
- Apocalypse: of angels and monsters
- 'Your brother will rise again'
- Creation and evolution
- 'Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life'
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works cited