Spectral Spain

Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction

Heidi Backes

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

Beschreibung

Spectral Spain examines the Gothic haunting motif in post-Franco Spanish literature. With a theoretical framework in memory and trauma studies, and a particular emphasis on the inclusion of women’s voices, this book is the first to provide an in-depth study of spectrality and haunting in the Gothic literature of contemporary Spain. Through close readings of eleven main texts, the author examines haunting as the perfect motif for Spanish authors to portray the tension between modernity and the imposition of a monocultural, nationalised tradition throughout the twentieth century – noting not just the trauma of the civil war and resulting dictatorship of Franco, but also the continuing and widespread disenchantment during and after the Transition. Through its references to the contemporary debate surrounding historical memory, Spectral Spain demonstrates the relevance of the Gothic in Spanish literature, and the continued ghostly returns of the past in the socio-political anxieties of the present.

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Schlagwörter

Spaces, Heidi, Silent, Spain, Backes, Franco, Spectral, Memories, Post, Fiction, Haunted, Houses, Traumatic, Gothic