Working Through Memory: Writing Remembrance in Contemporary Spanish Narrative - Hardcover

Ferrán, Ofelia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161148264X ISBN 13: 9781611482645

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Working through Memory studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repression, from both the civil war and the Franco regime. Ferran analyzes narrative texts published between the 1960s and 1990s that present memory and the recuperation of a traumatic past as their main theme. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches to the study of memory, this book examines how each text presents a meta-narrative reflection of the very process of memory production, of how it is written and rewritten, recounted or repressed, transmitted or forgotten. Drawing particularly on trauma theory, Ferran argues that the analyzed texts provide effective models for what Freud called "working through" memory. This process is shown to be effective as it unsettles dominant historical discourses in the present, allowing for the pain and suffering of the victims of a traumatic past to emerge through various forms of narrative disruption and fragmentation.

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Ofelia Ferran is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 161148264X
• ISBN 13: 9781611482645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370