Kathryn Everly

History, Violence and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Kathryn Everly New Ed. edition

The novels discussed in this study reconfigure the individual's relationship to narrative, history, and reality through their varied interpretations of Spanish history. In these books, culture acts as mediator between the individual and the rapidly changing dynamic of contemporary society. The authors experiment with the novel form to challenge fundamental concepts of identity when the narrative acknowledges more than one way of reading and understanding history, violence, and reality.