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dc.contributor.authorAguirre-Oteiza, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-11T20:05:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationAguirre-Oteiza, Daniel. 2017. Usurping the Apocryphal: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Cosmopolitan Memory of Max Aub's Rhetoric of Testimony. Revista Hispánica Moderna 70, no. 1: 1-17.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1944-6446en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41343817*
dc.description.abstractThis article explores Antonio Muñoz Molina's recuperation of Max Aub's literary testimony of uprootedness for Spanish national culture. Muñoz Molina's reading is inflected by the concept of cosmopolitan memory as it has been developed in Holocaust studies. Muñoz Molina's recuperation can be critiqued for his controversial use of the Holocaust as a template for a transnational cultural history based on a supposedly shared Jewish past. Muñoz Molina generalizes on two levels: he turns Aub into an exemplary witness of two historical junctures—the Spanish Civil War and World War II—and he subsumes both junctures under the general rubric of totalitarianism. As a result, Muñoz Molina paradoxically downplays Aub's main tropes of testimony, the alias and the apocryphal, and disregards his testimonial poetics of alterity, plurivocality, and opacity in favor of a rhetoric of equivalence, univocality, and self-evidence that is derived from cosmopolitan memory. Thus, Muñoz Molina turns Aub into a precursor whose place he tries to symbolically usurp—along with other Jewish authors, Aub is made to occupy a trans-historical topos to which Muñoz Molina wants to discursively return.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipRomance Languages and Literaturesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherProject Museen_US
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dc.titleUsurping the Apocryphal: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Cosmopolitan Memory of Max Aub's Rhetoric of Testimonyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalRevista Hispánica Modernaen_US
dash.depositing.authorAguirre-Oteiza, Daniel
dc.date.available2019-09-11T20:05:45Z
dash.workflow.commentsFAR2017en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/rhm.2017.0000
dc.source.journalRevista Hispánica Moderna
dash.source.volume70;1
dash.source.page1-17
dash.contributor.affiliatedAguirre-Oteiza, Daniel


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