Expropiate Identity: the imagined History of Eugenia Tusquets in Ladrones de vidas
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Encompassed as a postmodernist novel with a post-dictatorial aesthetic, according to Jochen Mecke’s definition, the fifth novel by Eugenia Tusquets, entitled Ladrones de vidas, was published at the end of 2018. This novel depicts the drama of the expropriation of children during the Spanish dictatorship, and the terrible continuity of these crimes during the first decades in democracy. Therefore, the novelized story investigates the supplanted identity of the victims along with the motivation of the perpetrators, and shows the conflicts derived from these actions. This study focuses on the relationship on the social and political claim of the fictional works, and it contributes to the debate on hegemonic legal and historical discourses confronted with literary narrative discourses. The analysis of the novel shows how the literary text supports and collaborates with the recovery of historical memory in Spain with the aim to restore justice to the victims.
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