Out of the Prison of Memory. Nations and Future Edited by VLADIMER LUARSABISHVILI NEW VISION UNIVERSITY PRESS This book demonstrates the main peculiarities of nations related to memory and future: the notion of historical truth and its relations to memory and literature, on the one hand, and the importance of the future for the survival of the nation, on the other hand. The monograph offers the questions of individual experience, such as feminism and migration in this respect; and finally, the possibilities of historical reconstruction based on the documentary and non-documentary sources are overviewed in the publication. New Vision University Press 1a Evgeni Mikeladze Str, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia www.newvision.ge Information on this title: http://newvision.ge/en/publications First published 2020 All rights reserved. No reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of New Vision University Press. © Vladimer Luarsabishvili; © individual contributors ISBN 978-9941-9619-9-1 Contents Contributors IV Introduction: Out of the Prison of Memory - Nations and Future VLADIMER LUARSABISHVILI 1 Part I: Nations and Future: Historical Truth, Memory and Literature Historical Truth Contrasted with Individual Memory and Communication Memory KRZYSZTOF POLIT 3 Nations and Memory: The Importance of the Future and Acting as if What Really Happened Had Not Happened GERARDO LÓPEZ SASTRE 30 Writing Memory in Conflict and Post-Conflict: Hernán Valdés’ Tejas Verdes TOMÁS ALBALADEJO 53 Part II: Individual experiences: Feminism and Migration Feminism during the Period of the Spanish Transition to Democracy: Lidia Falcón O’Neill MARTA NOGUEROLES JOVÉ 68 Edward W. Said (1935 – 2003) or the Critic towards the Orient: The Art of Refurbishing the Conflict through Cultural Rhetoric EUGENIO-ENRIQUE CORTÉS-RAMÍREZ, JUAN CARLOS GÓMEZ ALONSO 82 American Dream or American Experience: Being a Foreigner in Praxis and in Literary Theory PETER STEINER 123 Part III: Reconstructing History: Documentary, and Non-Documentary Sources The Theory and Practice of the Literature of Memory JAVIER SÁNCHEZ ZAPATERO 137 Reconstructing History: Documentary and Non-Documentary Sources VLADIMER LUARSABISHVILI 150 III Contributors TOMÁS ALBALADEJO is professor in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid, whose Faculty of Arts he has been Dean. Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad de Murcia. Doctor from the Università di Bologna as fellow of the Real Colegio de España in Bologna. He has held teaching positions at the Universities of Málaga, Murcia, Alicante and Valladolid. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Bielefeld, Tours, Nottingham and Oxford. His main research lines are literary language, rhetoric, literary translation theory, digital literature, political discourse, ectopic literature, and literature in international relations. Main books: Retórica, Teoría de los mundos posibles, Semántica de la narración: la ficción realista. Last publications (2019): “El motor metafórico y la fundamentación retórico-cultural de su activación”, “European crisis, fragmentation and cohesion: the contribution of ectopic literature to Europeanness”. Book in progress: Literature as culture: transnational creation and international projection. EUGENIO–ENRIQUE CORTÉS–RAMÍREZ, PhD (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM, Spain), is Professor of English & Comparative Literature and Culture at the Department of Modern Languages in the Cuenca School of Education (Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, UCLM, Spain). He has lectured on Comparative Literature and Culture Studies throughout different universities worldwide. He is a member of the CPyR Researching Group (Comunicación, Poética y Retórica) at UAM. His main research lines are Philosophy, Critical Theory, Theory of Culture, Poetics and Rhetoric. He has published, among others, La Poética Sentimental de Michel de Certeau (2012), Cultural and Ideological Hegemony as a Method to Study Popular Culture Education (2013), Francis Bacon´s Theory of Culture (2014), Cultural Hegemony Today. From Cultural Studies to Critical Pedagogy (2015). And also he is the autor of La Luz de los Otros. Edward Said y la Revolución Cultural del Orientalismo, Madrid, UAM Ediciones, 2012. IV JUAN CARLOS GÓMEZ ALONSO, PhD, is Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM, Spain), where he lectures on Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. Bachelor of Arts from the University of Valladolid. Doctor from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is member of a researcher group C[PyR] (Communication, Poetics and Rhetoric) and secretary of IULCE–UAM (Instituto Universitario La Corte en Europa–UAM). Co–director of ACTIO NOVA: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature of the UAM. His main research lines are literary language, rhetoric and stylistic. Among other titles, he is autor of La estilística de Amado Alonso como una teoría del lenguaje literario (Murcia, Editum, 2002) and editor from Gredos of the book of A. Alonso Poesía y estilo de Pablo Neruda (1997). He has published articles on rhetorical memory, on the history of rhetoric and on poetic concepts; has coordinated with other authors the publication of Constitución republicana de 1873 autógrafa de D. Emilio Castelar. El orador y su tiempo (UAM, 2014). Recently coordinated, in collaboration with Concepción Camarero, El dominio de la realidad y la crisis del discurso. El nacimiento de la conciencia europea, (Madrid, Polifemo, 2017). GERARDO LÓPEZ SASTRE is professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of Toledo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He studied Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid and also completed his PhD there. He is the translator into Spanish of the Enquiry concerning the principles of Morals, by David Hume, of the Three Dialogues between Hylas and Filonus, by George Berkeley, and the Three essays on religion, by John Stuart Mill. He is the editor of the volume David Hume. Nuevas perspectivas sobre su obra; and coedited the volumes Cosmopolitismo y nacionalismo. De la Ilustración al mundo contemporáneo, and Civilizados y salvajes. La mirada de los ilustrados sobre el mundo no europeo. His latest publications are the books Hume. Cuándo saber ser escéptico, and John Stuart Mill. El utilitarismo que cambiaría el mundo. V VLADIMER LUARSABISHVILI is professor of Politics and International Relations at the New Vision University. He was awarded a Ph.D. in the Literary Theory and Comparative Literature by the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he is a member of the research group Communication, Poetics and Rhetoric (CPyR). He translated the Rimas y Leyendas by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Niebla and Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho by Miguel de Unamuno, Euskal Harria, Harrizko Herri Hau and Harri eta herri by Gabriel Aresti, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao and Mientras tanto cógeme la mano by Kirmen Uribe, El Poeta Gabriel Aresti (1933-1975) and Euskal Literaturaren Historia by Jon Kortazar from Spanish into Georgian, the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo from English into Georgian and Las maletas imposibles by Juanjo Olasagarre from Spanish into Russian. He is the author of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer y Miguel de Unamuno. Sobre la interideidad romántica-existencialista. Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanna, where he works on monograph Cultura sin fronteras. Retórica, Literatura de Inmigrantes y Traducción. MARTA NOGUEROLES JOVÉ is professor of philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is the member of the group “Cambio Educativo para la Justicia Social” (GICE) and of UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice. She is the author of Fernando Savater: biografía intelectual de un joven filósofo and the co-author of Diccionario de Pensadoras Españolas de los siglos XIX y XX (with Juana Sánchez-Gey). KRZYSZTOF POLIT is professor at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. From 1992 to 1995 he investigated the problems related to contemporary aesthetics and published articles on American aesthetics and the book entitled Świat antysztuki w teoriach estetycznych (The Anti – Art World In Aesthetic Theories, 1995). In 1995 he was appointed assistant professor in Department of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Maria Curie Skłodowska University. In this period his interests shift to researching problems related to ethics, bioethics and Spanish philosophy of the XIX and XX VI century. He focuses on issues related to axiology and philosophy of culture and published the monographs: Kryzys cywilizacji Zachodu w myśli José Ortegi y Gasseta (The Crisis of Western Civilization in José Ortega y Gasset`s Thought), Natutra. Społeczeństwo, Historia. Socjalizm i poglądy filozoficzno – społeczne młodego Miguela de Unamuno (Nature. Society. History. Socialism and Philosophical Views of the Young Miguel de Unamuno) and Bóg, człowiek i śmierć. Poglądy filozoficzne dojrzałego Miguela de Unamuno (God, Human and Death. Philosophical Views of the Mature Miguel de Unamuno). JAVIER SÁNCHEZ ZAPATERO is professor at the University of Salamanca, where he teaches Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. Currently, he is leader of a researcher group about Spanish Civil War Literature (Los Internacionales y la Guerra Civil española: literatura, compromiso y memoria) and co-director of a anual conference about crime fiction