In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession wi
This book proposes a new direction for the study of Spanish literature of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, arguing that novels of this period merit a fresh cri
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the S
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists
Studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repression, from both the civil war and the F