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Multiperspectivism in the Novels of the Spanish Civil War
Author(s) -
Hansen Hans Lauge
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01017.x
Subject(s) - narrative , spanish civil war , negotiation , politics , period (music) , history , literature , world war ii , sociology , aesthetics , political science , art , law , social science , archaeology
Since the turn of the millennium, Spanish society has been engaged with an intense public and political debate about the Civil War and the post‐war period. The number of publications has exploded within all genres, and narrative fiction clearly participates in the negotiation of the cultural memory of this period. Taking its point of departure in Todorov’s concept of restorative narratives, this article investigates whether contemporary Spanish novels continue a Manichaean division between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and whether it is possible to detect a difference in narrative patterns before and after the turn of the millennium.