Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative

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

’What is primarily new and important about this study is the commingling of memory and space in the context of memory studies in Spain. Ryan argues persuasively for the necessary integration of the temporal and the spatial and illustrates her point through the close reading of seven different narrative texts. Ryan is sophisticated theoretically, is an excellent reader-and it shows throughout her work.’ - David Herzberger, University of California, Riverside, USA 'Within the present Spanish context of the reconceptualization of historical memory during the Civil War and postwar periods, this book shows the importance of spatial narrative in order to appropriate one's own (collective) history and identity.' - Forum for Modern Language Studies'Lorraine Ryan’s Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millenial Spanish Narrative offers a novel approach to memory studies ... Ryan’s monograph makes a valuable and original contribution to the burgeoning field of memory studies. Her focus on space, her concern with authorial motivation, her deft use of a range of conceptual frameworks, and her detailed contextualization make it essential reading for those working on memory studies in Spain.' - Bulletin of Hispanic Studies'Ryan does an excellent job of exploring the approach contemporary writers have taken to Republicanism in order to reclaim a political position which had been silenced for many years...Overall, the book is an informative, tendentious, and penetrating analysis of Republican memory after the Civil war.'- Angela P. Pacheco, Purdue University, British Society for Literature and Science

• 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;