What is it about?
This article examines the ways in which Spanish- and Catalan-language writers from Catalonia have used the crime genre to reflect on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because it focuses specifically on the present uses of Catalan cultural memories of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship and because it demonstrates how the conventions of the crime genre facilitate this exploration of the past.
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I hope this article will help to overcome the often mistaken idea that crime fiction is a superficial genre and that this popular genre can contribute to our understanding of the role of cultural memory in contemporary Catalonia.
Stewart King
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: The Palimpsestic Past: Crime Fiction, Cultural Memory and Catalonia, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, September 2017, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2017.50.
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