“Bullfighting Reds”. Civil War, National Identity and Conceptual Integration Networks in Javier Reverte’s Banderas en la niebla (2017)”

Authors

  • Ana-María Casas-Olcoz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/myn.9670

Abstract

This article focuses on the articulation of conceptual integration networks (Fauconnier and Turner) in memory novel Banderas en la niebla (2017) by Javier Reverte, with the aim of approaching the way in which the protagonists, both seen as prototypical individuals fighting in the Spanish Civil War, think about the conflict. Based on the productive interrelationship between memory studies and cognitive literary studies, this analysis identifies two essential integration networks which recreate the protagonists’ cognitive functioning on their interpretation of the conflict: “War is like bullfighting” and “Spain is like Ilium”. The implications of this conceptualization of the war provide an image of the Spanish Identity from the negative stereotyping whose atavism and brutality coincide with the hispanophobic Black Legend.

Author Biography

Ana-María Casas-Olcoz

Ana María Casas-Olcoz es graduada en Filología Hispánica y Periodismo (2016) por la Universidad de Navarra, Master of Arts en Literatura y Lingüística Hispánicas (2018) por la Universidad de Wisconsin, y actualmente realiza su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Navarra, bajo la dirección y codirección de los catedráticos Luis Galván (Universidad de Navarra) y Hans Lauge Hansen (Universidad de Aarhus). Ha sido beneficiaria de la beca predoctoral ADA (Universidad de Navarra), de la Ayuda de Movilidad Predoctoral Internacional (Gobierno de Navarra) y del primer premio en el certamen de investigación Sancho el Sabio (2018). Su trabajo doctoral estudia en términos cognitivos la plasmación de la mentalidad de los soldados franquistas en una selección de novelas recientes sobre la guerra civil. Ha avanzado sus resultados preliminares en revistas —como Kamchatka o Estudios de Teoría Literaria—, volúmenes colectivos y congresos nacionales e internacionales.

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Published

2022-05-31

Issue

No. 3 (2022)

Section

Artikler

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