Genre Fusion : A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One - Introduction: Origins of Genre Fusion in Spain -- Preface -- Postwar, Transition, and Democracy: History and Literature at the Margins -- A Decade of Historical Memory and Literary Studies -- History, Fiction, Narrative, and Genre Fusion -- The Fiction/History Debate beyond Spain -- Divergent Experiences, Converging Genres -- Chapter Two - Montserrat Roig: Testimony of the Marginalized Catalan -- Testimonial Literature in Spain -- Novelist, Journalist, and Obsessive Reality -- Els catalans als camps nazis: Individual Testimony to a Collective Nightmare -- L'hora violeta: A Fictional Framing of Historiography -- Chapter Three - Carmen Martín Gaite: Rewriting Spain's Memory -- Spanish Society after Franco: Balancing Revisionist History and Collective Memory -- Martín Gaite and the Uses of History -- El cuarto de atrás: A Fantastic Interruption of History -- Usos amorosos de la postguerra española: Postwar Society Reinterpreted -- Chapter Four - Carlos Blanco Aguinaga: The Spanish Other in Mexico -- Theorizing Exile Identity: Fluid Borders and Genres -- Total mexicanización or refugiados españoles? -- Carretera de Cuernavaca: A Generation Adrift -- Chapter Five - Javier Marías: Genre Fusion in the New Millennium -- The Past in the Present in Twenty-first-century Spain -- Editorializing History: Marías as Witness to a Global Spain -- Tu rostro mañana: Facing the Past -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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