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Historical Memory and Ethics in Spanish Narrative

This study traces the current status of Spanish ethics as seen through the optics of historical memory. Starting from the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the thesis relates contemporary themes to their proposed origin throughout three additional distinctive eras of the 20th and 21st century in Spain: 1982-1996 (Socialist Spain), 1997-2010 (Post-modern Spain), and 2011-present (current Spain). Spanish narratives ranging from Los Abel by Matute, La magnitud de la tragedia by Monzó, "Fidelidad" of Ha dejado de llover by Barba and Las fosas de Franco by Silva are contextualized through their ethical architecture, in accordance with their socio-political context, and relationship to past historical traumas. This work proposes that the themes of anticlericalism, the pursuit of social equality, anti bureaucracy, and political distrust are trends culminating from Kohlberg's third level of morality. The thesis aims to be an exposition and legitimization of different ethical schemas that might otherwise be polarized as wrong and inferior by others.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1062813
Date12 1900
CreatorsWilson, Rachelle
ContributorsSánchez-Conejero, Cristina, Lee, Jongsoo, Avilés-Diz, Jorge
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 77 pages, Text
CoverageSpain, 1936~/2017~
RightsPublic, Wilson, Rachelle, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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