The Flux of Agency: Unsettling Objects in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novels (1998-2008)
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu14705857272021-12-20T05:37:19Z The Flux of Agency: Unsettling Objects in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novels (1998-2008) Henricksen, Richard A. Archaeology Cultural Anthropology European History European Studies Human Remains Literature Modern Literature memory of the Spanish Civil War materiality and memory Ghostly Matters Memory Boom object agency flux of agency unsettling objects My dissertation examines the role of materiality in Spain’s shifting memory politics towards the Spanish Civil War. I focus primarily on the “Memory Boom”, an explosion of political and public interest in the conflict at the turn of the twenty first century which sought to counter the Democratic Transition’s pact of silence towards the war. I argue that the materialization of exhumed bones, opened archives, parallel with the emergence of hundreds of documentaries, films, novels, and other cultural products from 1998 forward forced Spain to reflect on the war as never before. My emphasis centers around a literary analysis of the human/object engagement as demonstrated in contemporary Spanish Civil War novels, which explore how materiality produces such transformations. Each novel captures the unsettling power of objects to alter human subjectivity as they emerge from the shadows and uproot preconceived notions of the past. Additionally, these novels demonstrate the performance, work, and the bodily and emotional engagement necessary to somehow unsettle meanings from the multi-layered, often enigmatic, traces that remain from the event. Finally, the novels demonstrate the give-and-take agential powers, the flux of agency, that allows for both human and object to reciprocally shift, manipulate, transform, and renegotiate meaning and identity. 2016 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1470585727 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1470585727 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Archaeology Cultural Anthropology European History European Studies Human Remains Literature Modern Literature memory of the Spanish Civil War materiality and memory Ghostly Matters Memory Boom object agency flux of agency unsettling objects Henricksen, Richard A. The Flux of Agency: Unsettling Objects in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novels (1998-2008) |
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The Flux of Agency: Unsettling Objects in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novels (1998-2008) |
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The Flux of Agency: Unsettling Objects in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novels (1998-2008) |
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