Spain is different: Historical memory and the Two Spains in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Spain is different: Historical memory and the Two Spains in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
By (Author) Dale Knickerbocker
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
24th March 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
863.0876209
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
Dale Knickerbocker is McMahon Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He specialises in Hispanic science fiction, horror and the fantastic, and is author of Juan Jose Millas: the obsessive-compulsive aesthetic, and editor of Lingua Cosmica: Essays on World Science Fiction.
