History, violence, and the hyperreal : representing culture in the contemporary Spanish novel /

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"What does literature reveal about a country's changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, st...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Everly, Kathryn, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2010.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
History in literature.
Literature and history > Spain > History.
Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire > Espagne > Histoire.
Roman espagnol > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Spanish fiction.
Roman.
Spanisch.
Spain > In literature.
Spain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rewriting the past as cultural capital: sacred violence in Carme Riera's Dins el darrer blau
  • Reader/text solidarity in decoding the past in Carme Riera's La Meitat de l'anima
  • Women, writing, and the Spanish Civil War in La Voz Dormida by Dulce Chacon
  • The impossible invention of history and the hero in Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina and La velocidad de la luz
  • Television, simulacra, and power in three works by Ray Loriga
  • Textual violence and the hyperreal in De todo lo visible y lo invisible by Lucia Etxebarria
  • (Inter)textuality in Jose Angel Manas's Historias del Kronen and la Pella.

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