Memory and Identity in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas : Constructing the Past and the Self 9781498500302, 9781498500296

Narratives of contemporary Spanish writer Soledad Puértolas (1947-), inducted into the Real Academia Española in 2010, d

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Memory and Identity in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas : Constructing the Past and the Self
9781498500302, 9781498500296

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Mi

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “all history becomes subjective,” that, in fact, “properly there is no history, only

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It is commonly accepted that identity or a sense of self is constructed by and through narrative - the stories we tell o

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The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow

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Photos of the whole book

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Throughout Europe, narratives about the past circulate at a dizzying speed, and producing and selling these narratives i

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There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human socie

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The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to terr

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Between 1910 and 1945 Korea was subjected to Japanese colonial rule. Monuments, Memory, and Identity investigates ways h

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The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect

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