Transnational strategies of the fictionalized memory of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship in the narrative of the eighties. A case of literary memory in Herrumbrosas lanzas, by Juan Benet.

MINARDI ADRIANA E.

Congreso; II Congreso Ibero- Asiático de Hispanistas. Universidad de Navarra, GRISO. Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Kyoto, Japón.; 2013

The present paper is an attempt at debating some basic ideas in Juan Benet?s essays and literary contributions regarding the discussion between Memory/History in Spain after the death of Franco. Problematic concepts such as lieux de mèmoire, historical memory y collective memory are discussed, taking as a starting point the relationship History/Novel and the configurations of the different semantic fields that are here analyzed, particularly, from the construction of the ideological condenser Región in the author?s magnum opus: Herrumbrosas lanzas (1983-1986). We are going to start from: a. The transnational strategies that narrate frontiers not only geographic but cultural, such as the argentinian case; b. The strategies referring to the construction of the deconstructive rhetoric of the `State myth? and the National-Catholicism ideology; finally, c. The discussion revolving the usefulness of the method, expressed in the function of the historical novel that breaks the canonical epistemological paradigm of representation of the eighties.