Monserrat Roig's El Temps de les cireres: a nostalgic look at the past
- Autores: Andrew J. Deiser
- Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Cluster: Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture in Honor of David J. Viera), págs. 69-81
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In Postmodernism or; the Cultural Logic oi Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson speaks to the legitimacy of the claim that we have entered the postmodern era. He also notes, however, that cultural artifacts often contain elements of a previous social structure while, at the same time, revealing one in its early stages of development. In this article I argue that Montserrat Roig's 1977 novel, El temps de les cireres, supports Jameson's premise. Through the motifs of photography and time, Roig not only chronicles some of the significant social changes took place in Barcelona during the 1960s and 1970s, she also conjures up the city's more remote past for an older generarion that had been denied it, as weli as for a younger generation that no longer recognized it. In so doing, her novel not only documents events leading up to Spain's transirion to democracy, it also grapples with the broader historical transirion from moderniry to posrmoderniry in Spain.
