Spain Is Different? - Historical Memory Two Spains in Turn Of The Millennium Spanish

A study of historical trauma and religious imagery in turn-of-the-century Spanish science fiction.

Apocalyptic science-fiction exploded around the world at the end of the twentieth century, hand-in-hand with naturalistic secularism. In Spain, however, science fiction paradoxically embraced biblical plots, characters, and imagery. Drawing on critical theory, psychoanalysis, and biblical scholarship, Spain Is Different? explains this phenomenon through an analysis of the "Two Spains," Spanish "difference," and the "Pact of Silence." Each collaborated to obscure accountable justice following the traumatic Civil War, and the resulting traumas manifest symbolically in these fictions.

Product details

• Authors: Dale Knickerbocker
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781786838124
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-812-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Science Fiction, Turn, memory, Spain, IS, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Historical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Millennium, of, Spanish, Knickerbocker, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Dale, Fictions, Spains’, apocalyptic, ‘Two, different?