Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative

Focusing on seven literary texts produced in the post-millennial period, this monograph examines the relationship between space and Republican memory and the reconfigurations of power in the Civil War, Franco Dictatorship, Transition and the resurgence period. Ryan combines scholarship on the history of spatiality in Spain with sociological literature on memory and identity, demonstrating the intertwinement of historical change and spatial transformation with the individual Republican struggle to maintain continuity with a marginalized identity.

Lorraine Ryan is a Birmingham fellow at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Degenerative Space, Fertility, and Post-Transitional Justice in Dulce Chacón's Cielos de barro; Chapter 2 The City and the Body in Ángeles López's Martina, la rosa número trece; Chapter 3 The Nullification of Domestic Space in Alberto Méndez's "Los girasoles ciegos"; Chapter 4 Spatial Assimilation and the Corruption of the Child in Emili Teixidor's Pan negro; Chapter 5 A Resistant Barcelona: Hidden Transcripts in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento; Chapter 6 Rurality, the Second Space, and Global Memory Structures in Bernardo Atxaga's El hijo del acordeonista; Chapter 7 Rememory, Hybridity, and in-between Space in José María Merino's La sima; conclusion Conclusion;