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History, Violence, and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Kathryn Everly
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Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
What does literature reveal about a country s changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, structure, and language. Contemporary Spanish authors are rethinking the way the novel with its narrative powers can define a specific cultural identity. Recent Spanish novels by Carme Riera, Dulce Chacon, Javier Cercas, Ray Loriga, Lucia Etxebarria, and Jose Angel Manas (published from 1995 to 2008) particularly highlight the tension that exists between historical memory and urban youth ... Read more
What does literature reveal about a country s changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, structure, and language. Contemporary Spanish authors are rethinking the way the novel with its narrative powers can define a specific cultural identity. Recent Spanish novels by Carme Riera, Dulce Chacon, Javier Cercas, Ray Loriga, Lucia Etxebarria, and Jose Angel Manas (published from 1995 to 2008) particularly highlight the tension that exists between historical memory and urban youth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535580
SKU
V9781557535580
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About Kathryn Everly
Kathryn Everly is an associate professor of Spanish at Syracuse University. She is the author of Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Feminist Views from a Revisionist Space (2003). She has published articles and chapters in Hispanic Journal, Catalan Review, Monographic Review, Letras Peninsulares, and in various anthologies. Her current research focuses on aspects of surrealism in the works of Merce ... Read more
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