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Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women Sarah Leggott PublishedbyBucknellUniversityPress CopublishedbyTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015by[authornameforauthoredbooks/Rowman&Littlefieldforedited collections] Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Leggott,Sarah. Memory,war,anddictatorshipinrecentSpanishfictionbywomen/SarahLeggott. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-61148-666-7(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-1-61148-667-4(electronic) 1.Spanishfiction--Womenauthors--Historyandcriticism.2.Womenandliterature--Spain.3.Mem- oryinliterature.4.Warinliterature.5.Dictatorshipinliterature.6.Spanishfiction--20thcentury-- Historyandcriticism.7.Spanishfiction--21stcentury--Historyandcriticism.I.Title. PQ6055.L4352015 860.9'9287--dc23 2015012521 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 NarratingtheLegacyofWarandDictatorshipin ContemporarySpain:Gender,Trauma,andtheHistorical MemoryDebates 11 2 DulceChacón(1954–2003):ConstructingaGendered Postmemory:Repression,Resistance,and TransgenerationalTransmissioninLavozdormida(2002) 39 3 RosaRegàs(1933–):ExpiatingtheSinsoftheMother: ChildhoodMemoriesofRetributionandLossinLunalunera (1999) 61 4 JosefinaAldecoa(1926–2011):ChallengingCulturalTaboos ofAgeandGender:TheVoiceoftheElderlyMotherand ReturnedExileinLafuerzadeldestino(1997) 81 5 CarmeRiera(1948–):ReconstructingtheMaternalStory: TheQuestforHistorical“Truth”andSelf-Understandingin Lamitaddelalma(2005) 95 6 AlmudenaGrandes(1960–):Inscribingthe TransgenerationalLegacyofExile:ASon’sInheritedGuilt andaGranddaughter’sQuestforReparationinElcorazón helado(2007) 111 Conclusion 129 Bibliography 135 Index 153 AbouttheAuthor 159 v Acknowledgments This study was made possible by the support of many friends and col- leagues and by the strong institutional support that I received from Vic- toriaUniversityofWellington. In particular, my thanks go to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria for providing me with various forms of research funding in support of this project: faculty research grants, conference leave,writingretreats,andresearchleave,includinganextendedperiod of study leave in 2013–2014 which allowed me the time and space to complete the book while living in the wonderful surrounds of rural Andalucía. Forsupport,advice,andencouragementovertheyears,specialthanks areduetoChristineArkinstall,MercedesCamino,DeborahWillis,Brian Moloughney,SallyHill,AllisonKirkman,andKathrynSutherland.Iam alsogratefultotheanonymousreviewersatBucknellUniversityPressfor their constructive and generous comments on drafts of the manuscript, and to research assistants Julia van Luijk and Jon Preston, who did a wonderfuljobofeditingthedraftmanuscriptandpreparingitforpubli- cation. Asalways,mygreatestdebtofgratitudeistomyfamily:Stuart,Ryan, Lauren,andLucy.Ithankthemfortheirsenseofadventureinaccompa- nying me to Spain numerous times and for their love and support throughouttheproject. Finally,mythanksgotoProfessorGregClinghamofBucknellUniver- sity Press and to the production team at Rowman & Littlefield for their professionalismandexpertise:theyarealwaysapleasuretoworkwith. Ialsothanktheeditorsofthefollowingpublicationsfortheirpermis- sion to reprint partial versions of the research in this book. Portions of chapters2,5,and6werepreviouslypublishedinthefollowingarticles: “Memory, Postmemory, Trauma: The Spanish Civil War in Recent NovelsbyWomen.”FULGOR:FlindersUniversityLanguagesGroup OnlineReview4,no.1(November2009):25–34. “TheQuestforHistorical‘Truth’andSelf-Understanding:CarmeRie- ra’s La mitad del alma.” In Telling Tales: The Place of Storytelling in ContemporarySpain,editedbyAnneWalsh.Newcastle:Cambridge Scholars,2015.PublishedwiththepermissionofCambridgeSchol- arsPublishing. vii viii Acknowledgments “Remembering the Spanish Civil War in Fiction: Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida and Ángeles Caso’s Un largo silencio.” In The Spanish CivilWar:ExhumingaBuriedPast,editedbyAnindyaRaychaudhu- ri,159–70.Cardiff:UniversityofWalesPress,2013. “Representations of Spain’s Republican Exile in Contemporary Fic- tion:AlmudenaGrandes’sElcorazónhelado(2007).”InExilioeiden- tidad en el mundo hispánico: Reflexiones y representaciones, edited by Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez and Laura López Fernández, 605–25. UniversityofAlicante:BibliotecaVirtualCervantes,2012. “Representing Spain’s 20th-Century Trauma in Fiction: Memories of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Novels by Women.” In Trauma,Media,Art:NewPerspectives,editedbyMickBroderickand Antonio Traverso, 120–31. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. PublishedwiththepermissionofCambridgeScholarsPublishing.
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