Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes [Hardcover]

Introduction

 

Motherhood, Clothing and Class in Los aires dif?ciles.

Memory, Masculinity and the Changing Spanish Family in El coraz?n helado.

The Feminised Quest Romance in In?s y la alegr?a.

Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress and the Gendered Reading Trope in El lector de Julio Verne.

Internal Exile and Resistance in Las tres bodas de Manolita.

Perpetration and the Stigma of Illness in Los pacientes del Dr. Garc?a.

 

Conclusion

Almudena Grandes is one of Spain?s foremost women?s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her pre-eminence.

This book situates Grandes?s novels within gendered, philosophical, and mnemonic theoretical concepts that illuminate hidden dimensions of her much-studied work. Lorraine Ryan considers and expands on existing critical work on Grandes?s oeuvre, proposing new avenues of interpretation and understanding. She seeks to debunk the arguments of those who portray Grandes as the proponent of a sectarian, eminently biased Republican memory by analysing the wide variety of gender and perpetrls#