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Psychoanalysing the nation. A comparative reading of António Lobo Antunes’ Memória de elefante and Luis Martín-Santos’s Tiempo de silencio
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Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison (2008) Psychoanalysing the nation. A comparative reading of António Lobo Antunes’ Memória de elefante and Luis Martín-Santos’s Tiempo de silencio. Orbis Litterarum, Vol.63 (No.5). pp. 403-421. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x ISSN 0105-7510.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x
Abstract
This article argues that Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes’ first work of fiction, Memória de elefante, can usefully be viewed in a comparative context alongside Spaniard Luis Martín-Santos’s novel Tiempo de silencio. Both novels represent a narrative response to dictatorship, and they display common strategies to engage their readers in a psychoanalytic interpretation of late twentieth-century Spain and Portugal and the existence of complicit attitudes to dictatorship therein. A reading of Lobo Antunes’ little discussed novel in the light of works by a comparable Spanish novelist, about whom there is a strong critical tradition, highlights significant new features and refutes the prevailing view of his early work as being postcolonial.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Orbis Litterarum | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0105-7510 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.63 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 403-421 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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