![]() ![]() Medina sees it, however, as an extension or a supplement of the Spanish transition, a kind of exterior and a posteriori effort to cope with Spain's failure to bring Franco, his own dictator, to justice. Judge Garzón's legal actions against Chile's dictator, general Augusto Pinochet, have been mostly read as the ultimate example of the international consolidation of the Spanish transition to democracy. ![]() The book closes with an extremely interesting epilogue where Alberto Medina puts to political use judge Garzon's intervention in New York University on the occasion of being invited by the veterans of the Lincoln Brigade on April 20,2000. Also at the limits of the "family romance ," Medina will identify the poetry of Leopoldo MarÃ-a Panero as a textual body that ends up achieving "una emancipación furiosamente antiedÃ-pica" (24) by means of the most paradoxical of figurative alliances: the one with his Francoist father, the "national poet," Leopoldo Panero. ![]() Specially convincing is his use of the Benjaminian allegorical ruins in order to read Sauras CrÃ-a cuervos as a self-conscious exploration of the very limits of allegory as a means of political transparency. In reading those films, moreover, Medina brings together his two most sustained metaphors: theater and emptiness. He will read those films as figurations of a parricide that can only supplement the historical fact that Franco died of a natural death. In analyzing Sauras and Chávarri's films, Medina's critical narrative finds the clearest instance of the fetishistic economy: the representation of the children toying with/acting out the imaginary death of the father. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Īrizona fournal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 289 Goytisolo, Medina argues, is aware of his incapacity to get rid of the haunting familiar ghosts, of his (and his generation) condemnation to deal with an arrested childhood that is why he will turn his entire narrative project into a "childish perversion" of its very constitutive sacrificial logic. ![]()
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