Manuel Rivas mediates an icon of Galicia through the recontextualization of painting and pictorial narratives, sculptures and scriptures, as a counter-memory of the Nationalist victors’ mythmaking. Applying Derrida’s hauntologie, Colmeiro’s national ghostliness, and Nora’s places of memory, this chapter explores symbols of identities and ideologies, the sociopolitical manipulation, and subsequent ironic subversion of cultural icons in Rivas’ novel. Rivas’ novel reveals Pierre Nora’s theories and “ ...
Tópico(s): Philippine History and Culture
2022 - Springer International Publishing | Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
... Toro's novel Trece badaladas, Manuel Rivas's O lapis do carpinteiro, or En salvaxe compaña, the collection of children' ... carpintero by Antón Reixa is an adaptation of O lapis do carpinteiro by Manuel Rivas. Even Mar adentro, which I ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
2011 - Routledge | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies