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La novela intrahistórica: entre la postmemoria y la pophistoria
Intrahistorical Novel between Postmemory and Pophistory

Author(s): Marta Eloy Cichocka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Literature
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Historical Novel; Intrahistorical Novel; Postmemory; Pophistory

Summary/Abstract: This comparative study takes into account two books written by women: El violín de Auschwitz (1994) by Maria Àngels Anglada and La Tabla Esmeralda (2012) by Carla Montero. Both novels, despite almost twenty years between them, offer a series of common features. Their extraliterary referent falls into the same thematic field (Nazism, deportation and the Holocaust); both employ the same narrative modality (the presenceof the intradiegetic and homodiegetic narration includes another narration, extradiegetic and heterodiegetic, about the past); last but not least, both titles offer a ‘view from below’, carried out by fictional characters – which allows to suppose that the two novels belong to a subcategory of the intrahistoric novel.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 145-160
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Spanish