Place, Silence, and Local Memory in Todo é silencio by Manuel Rivas

Authors

  • Neil D. Anderson Texas Tech University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2015.4.1

Keywords:

Manuel Rivas, Todo é silencio, memory, lieux de mémoire, forgetting, milieux de mémoire, escola de indianos

Abstract

This article addresses issues of local memory in Manuel Rivas’s novel Todo é silencio (2010) and takes as its starting point Pierre Nora’s twin notions of lieu de mémoire and milieu de mémoire. By focusing on a specific site portrayed in the novel —the escola de indianos, a building that once housed a progressive school— we analyze the ways in which the author deploys the building not merely as a setting, but also as aestheticization of the interstices between history, memory, and forgetting.

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How to Cite

Anderson, N. D. (2015). Place, Silence, and Local Memory in Todo é silencio by Manuel Rivas. Abriu: Estudos De Textualidade Do Brasil, Galicia E Portugal, (4), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2015.4.1