Abstract
Set during and after the Second World War and also incorporating a description of the Holocaust, the tetralogy O Reino by Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares uses parody to deal with recognizable sets of discursive traditions, social practices and emblematic figures which make up cultural memories related to the war. Such parody forces readers to go beyond rigorous categorizations and to perceive the heterogeneity of experiences behind memorialization. It ultimately helps to rethink the conceptual basis of both individual and collective memory, namely the notions of subject, object and of society.
Highlights
Common issues of resistance, guilt, and collaboration, shaped the way in which wartime experience was memorialized and used in the various nations
The other name used by the author to identify the place of the four novels within his abundant literary production is that of black books as they do describe apocalyptic scenarios and traumas associated with genocides and the Second World War
The articles and dissertations on the tetralogy that were revised for this study have analyzed the theme of biopolitics, using the interpretive categories derived from Foucault and agamben (Furão 2013), Tavares’ philosophical stance (Sousa 2010; Sánchez Madrid 2015), and the category of the absurd (Freitas 2010)
Summary
Common issues of resistance, guilt, and collaboration, shaped the way in which wartime experience was memorialized and used in the various nations. These national narratives were not monolithic: different memories of persecution were rivals for public attention and showed the difference of experiences and of conflicting memories as well as the dialectics between continuity and discontinuity in relation to the past that had to be always negotiated (assmann 2014).
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