Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction.

Franquismo;Biopolitica;Literatura Espanola;Cine Espanol;Romance Languages and Literature;Humanities;Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish

Matos-Martin, EduardoWilliams, Gareth ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Franquismo;    Biopolitica;    Literatura Espanola;    Cine Espanol;    Romance Languages and Literature;    Humanities;    Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to explore the Spanish dictatorial regime (1936-1975) from the point of view of biopolitics (including works by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Gilles Deleuze and others) by taking as its object of study a narrative corpus that includes Spanish literary and filmic works produced during the dictatorship and the early democratic period, together with contemporary productions framed in the current movement of the recovery of historical memory. Overall, this thesis analyzes Francoism from the angle of the biopolitical and tanatopolitical double matrix on which it was built and sustained, and finally, it further considers the movements of rupture that emerged against such domination. While previous scholarship on literary and filmic narratives of the Spanish fascist past have strongly emphasized issues such as memory and restitution of history’s victims, I take a different approach and investigate the ways in which these fictions intersect with political theory and ask: How does a dictatorial regime work? What are the structures of power of such regimes, and their impact on society? How do literary and cultural products uncover the complexities of the society built under such a regime? What are the implications of Francoist biopolitics for dissident identities such as the ;;reds”? For this purpose, this dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter explores the repressive power of the Spanish fascist rule by analyzing the narratives of Julio Llamazares, Alberto Méndez and Isaac Rosa, Luna de lobos (1985), Los girasoles ciegos (2003), and El vano ayer (2004). My second chapter explores the normalizing power carried out by Franco, accompanied with the literary analysis of three novels: Miguel Delibes’ Cinco horas con Mario (1966), Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Ardor Guerrero (1996), and Max Aub’s La gallina ciega (1971). Finally, my third chapter explores the question of the opposition movements that managed to survive throughout the dictatorship in dialogue with my analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s film, El laberinto del fauno (2006), and Rafael Chirbes’ novel, La larga marcha (1996).