Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the period from 1931 to 2005. Accordingly, Ryan analyzes the spatial empowerment and disempowerment of Republican memory and identity in Dulce Chacon s Cielos de barro, Angeles Lopez s Martina, la rosa nA mero trece, Alberto Mendez s Los girasoles ciegos, Carlos Ruiz ZafonAs La sombra del viento, Emili Teixidor s Pan negro, Bernardo Atxaga s El hijo del acordeonista, and Jose MarAa Merino s La sima....

Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the period from 1931 to 2005. Accordingly, Ryan analyzes the spatial empowerment and disempowerment of Republican memory and identity in Dulce Chacon s Cielos de barro, Angeles Lopez s Martina, la rosa nA mero trece, Alberto Mendez s Los girasoles ciegos, Carlos Ruiz ZafonAs La sombra del viento, Emili Teixidor s Pan negro, Bernardo Atxaga s El hijo del acordeonista, and Jose MarAa Merino s La sima....