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Dissonant Voices: Memory And Counter-Memory In Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Autobiografia Del General Franco, José F. Colmeiro Jun 1997

Dissonant Voices: Memory And Counter-Memory In Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Autobiografia Del General Franco, José F. Colmeiro

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Vázquez Montalbán's unauthorized autobiography of General Franco is built upon the use of dissonance as a strategy of resistance. The novel reveals the author's "professional schizophrenia" resulting from the dramatic authorial split as Franco's fictional ghostwriter and anti-Franco public persona, refracted internally in the split narrator of the text. This monumental construction of language and memories puts forth a metafictional examination of the conflicting relationship between history and fiction. Challenging traditional notions of authorship, referentiality, and self-referentiality, Autobiografia del general Franco obliges us to examine the dissonant discourses of historiography and memory and to ascertain the political function of writing …


Reviews Of Recent Publications Jun 1997

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Culture and Theory

Conley, Verena Andermatt, ed. Rethinking Technologies by Laurence M. Porter

Leitch, Vincent B. Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism by Merry M. Pawlowski

French Studies

Bersani, Leo and Ulysse Dutoit. Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais by Thomas Trezise

Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne. On Bataille: Critical Essays by Walter A. Strauss

Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations. Trans. Martin Joughin by Charles J. Stivale

Fisher, Dominique D. Staging of Language and Language(s) of the Stage: Mallarmé's poëme critique and Artaud's poetry-minus-text by Maryse Fauvel

Goodall, Jane. Artaud and the Gnostic Drama by Claudine G. Fisher

Lydon, Mary. Skirting the Issue: Essays …