Representación literaria da memoria e consecuencias da Transición na sociedade galega posfranquista
Literary representation of memory and consequences of the transition to democracy in post-Franco Galician society

A study of the novel O tempo en ningunha parte, by Xosé Manuel Martínez Oca

Summary/Abstract: The present work is situated at the intersection between literary studies and cultural memory studies. The object of the study is O tempo en ningunha parte (2003), a Galician novel written by Xosé Manuel Martínez Oca. It was published in the context of the memory boom in Spain since the year 2000. The literary representation of memory, or "mimesis of memory", will be studied in the novel in order to understand the processes and cultural dynamics of the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism in the society of 1985. O tempo en ningunha parte reflects the consequences of the politics of forgetting in the Spanish transition to democracy in the silence about the past that involves a detective plot. In addition, the novel proposes a critical interpretation of the process of democratization in Galicia and in the whole of Spain. With the use of "mimesis of memory", the author advances the memory conflicts that will take place in Spain from 2000. The author takes sides in the public debate on the interpretation and management of the recent traumatic past.

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