Deep Memory and the Impossibility of Civil Resistance in Alfons Cervera’s Maquis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16773506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorraine Ryan (0000-0001-9910-953X, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 338-355 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2737 • E-ISSN: 1745-820X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1468273713z.00000000053 |
| OpenAlex | W2119632068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Undoubtedly Cervera’s most politicized novel, Maquis, represents an interesting departure from his other novels insofar as it dismisses the efficacy of covert resistance in the private sphere as a mode of Republican resistance in the post-war period. In this novel, the disillusioned Republicans effectuate a total rupture from civil society by abandoning their homes to join the guerrilla movement, Maquis, in the mountains. There, the guerrillas fight to sustain a coherent sense of both memory and Republican identity. The rationale underlying their decision can be elucidated by reference to the relationship between deep memory and space. In so doing, I seek to prove that corporeality represents an essential component of memory and identity, and therefore, its violation requires the elaboration of a new memory and identity. Moreover, as the individual is no longer in a position of externality to the dominant memory, deep memory also implies the nullification of domestic space as a locus of resistance, and the necessity of the elaboration of a regenerative space. I will argue, however, that this conscious abandonment of identity and memory is overtly traumatic, as it creates an intolerable fissure between past and present, which in turn leads to the debasement and demoralization of the guerrillas
Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Collective memory · Covert · Identity (music · Impossibility · Linguistics · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Spanish Culture and Identity
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Bodies of Thought
Memory, History, Forgetting
Place and placelessness
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
La guerra persistente
Present Past
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Aesthetics and the ‘Other’ in Recent Novels of the Spanish Civil War
The revival of the sociology of culture
Social Change and Collective Memory
How Bodies Remember
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |