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Family memories, postmemory, and the rupture of tradition in Josefina Aldecoa’s Civil War trilogy
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Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison (2012) Family memories, postmemory, and the rupture of tradition in Josefina Aldecoa’s Civil War trilogy. Hispanic Research Journal, Vol.13 (No.3). pp. 250-263. doi:10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000014
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000014
Abstract
This article explores issues of memory, postmemory, and trauma in the domain of the family via close textual analysis of Josefina Aldecoa’s Civil War trilogy, Historia de una maestra, Mujeres de negro, and La fuerza del destino. These novels draw an allegorical parallel between the family and the nation in order to chart the intergenerational transmission of trauma and its overcoming. They thus reveal the importance of Aldecoa’s contribution not only to Spain’s contemporary memory debates, but also to the broader concerns of theories of cultural memory, postmemory, and the coding of historical experience as trauma.
Este artículo analiza los temas de memoria, postmemoria y trauma en el contexto de la familia, con una exposición detallada de la trilogía de novelas de la guerra civil, Historia de una maestra, Mujeres de negro, y La fuerza del destino, de Josefina Aldecoa. Estas obras crean un paralelo entre la familia y la nación para demostrar la transmisión intergeneracional de trauma y su superación. De este modo revelan la importancia de la contribución de Aldecoa no sólo a los debates contemporáneos en España sobre la memoria histórica sino también a las teorías de la memoria cultural, la postmemoria y la codificación de la experiencia histórica como trauma.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Hispanic Research Journal | ||||
| Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||
| ISSN: | 1468-2737 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.13 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 250-263 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000014 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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