Home > Journals > The Coastal Review > Vol. 2 > Iss. 1
Abstract
The work analyzes the role of literature in reconstructing historical memory and in serving to attest against the collective amnesia which takes place during the transition to democracy in Spain. The recreating of a historic episode during the Civil War allows the narrator of Soldados de Salamina to remake the past and call for the recovery of historical memory. Also examined is Maurice Halbwachs’ premise-the need to maintain “an affective community” in order to arrive at a reconstruction of memories.
Bio Note
Marie Guiribitey teaches Spanish at Florida International University and Miami Dade College. She earned her Ph.D (2007) in Spanish with specialization in 21st century Spanish Civil War narrative. She has presented papers on Isaac Rosa, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Javier Cercas, among others. Currently she is doing research in her area of specialization.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Guiribitey, Marie
(2008)
"Soldados de Salamina (2001): Cercas en busca de un héroe con el instinto de la virtud,"
The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
DOI: 10.20429/cr.2008.020103
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/thecoastalreview/vol2/iss1/3
Supplemental Reference List with DOIs
Included in
Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons