Constelaciones familiares en la narrativa iberoamericana moderna

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_673
dc.creator	Calderón Villarino Ángela
dc.creator	Welge Jobst
dc.title	Constelaciones familiares en la narrativa iberoamericana moderna
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	it, es, pt
dc.description.abstract	The present volume collects essays on the subject of ‘family constellations’ in modern and contemporary Iberoamerican fiction, including case studies from Spain, Portugal, Hispanophone Latin America, and Brazil, with analyses of novels ranging from 1973 (Concha Alós, La madama) to 2020 (Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Volver la vista atrás). The volume proposes the idea of ‘family constellations’ as a critical concept to capture the different ways in which these literary works transcend or escape the customary generic rubric of the family novel/saga. In contrast to more organic notions of family or the conventional scheme of genealogical sequence (and decadence), the novelistic works studied here are distinguished by the partial and subjective way in which they imagine affective bonds across or within a generation. Moreover, in contrast to the time-honored allegorical equation of family (history) and nation, the novels of the past decades and of most recent publication tend to foreground transnational and multi-relational or multilateral connections, bonds, and memories, and they frequently also appeal to an international readership. Historical legacies continue to play an important role, but frequently what is focused upon is not the direct experience of ‘historical’ events, but rather the transgenerational and traumatic transmission of historical memories over time and across generations. Finally, many of the novels discussed tend to connect the representation of family relations to meta-fictional and meta-historical devices. Through the eight individual studies presented here, the volume wants to make a case for the continued importance of ‘family’ in contemporary Iberoamerican literature, and to suggest concepts and approaches for further study, that highlight the more flexible and fragmentary modes in which familial relations undergird the content and form of recent fiction.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-833-0
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-06-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-834-7/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-834-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-833-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Adoption
dc.subject	Anthropology
dc.subject	Autofiction
dc.subject	Broken family networks
dc.subject	Caribbean
dc.subject	Colombia
dc.subject	Concha Alós
dc.subject	Constellation
dc.subject	Costumbrista novel
dc.subject	Cuba
dc.subject	Deconstruction
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Dulce Maria Cardoso
dc.subject	Epistemo-critical prologue
dc.subject	Family
dc.subject	Family
dc.subject	Family
dc.subject	Family novel
dc.subject	Family novel
dc.subject	Gabriel Vásquez
dc.subject	Historical memory
dc.subject	Historical novel
dc.subject	History
dc.subject	Hypermodernity
dc.subject	Imagination
dc.subject	Intergenerational transmission
dc.subject	Jewish history
dc.subject	José Luís Peixoto
dc.subject	José Saramago
dc.subject	Juan Benet
dc.subject	Knots of memory
dc.subject	La madama
dc.subject	Mask
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Metafiction
dc.subject	Metahistory
dc.subject	Multi-generational novel
dc.subject	Novel of the Mexican Revolution
dc.subject	Post-memory
dc.subject	Post-nationality
dc.subject	Private vision
dc.subject	Resistance strategies
dc.subject	Sephardism
dc.subject	State imposition
dc.subject	Transgenerational relation
dc.subject	Trauma
dc.subject	Trauma
dc.subject	USA
dc.subject	Walter Benjamin

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Ángela Calderón Villarino Universität Leipzig, Deutschland

Jobst Welge Universität Leipzig, Deutschland

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abstract

The present volume collects essays on the subject of ‘family constellations’ in modern and contemporary Iberoamerican fiction, including case studies from Spain, Portugal, Hispanophone Latin America, and Brazil, with analyses of novels ranging from 1973 (Concha Alós, La madama) to 2020 (Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Volver la vista atrás). The volume proposes the idea of ‘family constellations’ as a critical concept to capture the different ways in which these literary works transcend or escape the customary generic rubric of the family novel/saga. In contrast to more organic notions of family or the conventional scheme of genealogical sequence (and decadence), the novelistic works studied here are distinguished by the partial and subjective way in which they imagine affective bonds across or within a generation. Moreover, in contrast to the time-honored allegorical equation of family (history) and nation, the novels of the past decades and of most recent publication tend to foreground transnational and multi-relational or multilateral connections, bonds, and memories, and they frequently also appeal to an international readership. Historical legacies continue to play an important role, but frequently what is focused upon is not the direct experience of ‘historical’ events, but rather the transgenerational and traumatic transmission of historical memories over time and across generations. Finally, many of the novels discussed tend to connect the representation of family relations to meta-fictional and meta-historical devices.

Through the eight individual studies presented here, the volume wants to make a case for the continued importance of ‘family’ in contemporary Iberoamerican literature, and to suggest concepts and approaches for further study, that highlight the more flexible and fragmentary modes in which familial relations undergird the content and form of recent fiction.

Published

June 14, 2024

Language

IT, ES, PT

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-834-7

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-833-0

Keywords

Multi-generational novel • Hypermodernity • Concha Alós • Epistemo-critical prologue • USA • Post-nationality • Private vision • Trauma • Family novel • José Luís Peixoto • Memory • José Saramago • Walter Benjamin • Adoption • History • Autofiction • Broken family networks • Historical memory • La madama • Jewish history • Novel of the Mexican Revolution • Metahistory • Transgenerational relation • Constellation • Family • Metafiction • State imposition • Caribbean • Imagination • Gabriel Vásquez • Knots of memory • Anthropology • Cuba • Diaspora • Post-memory • Historical novel • Colombia • Juan Benet • Mask • Deconstruction • Costumbrista novel • Intergenerational transmission • Sephardism • Resistance strategies • Dulce Maria Cardoso

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