L’ombra de l’eunuc o el gris del clarobscur: representació terrorista i condicionants morals

• Authors: Xavier Barceló Pinya

Title variants

EN

L’ombra de l’eunuc or the grey in chiarobscuro: Terrorist representation and moral conditioning

• Languages of publication: CA

Abstracts

EN

L’ombra de l’eunuc, by Jaume Cabré (1996), presents the inner conflict of a former terrorist during Franco’s regime, and the consequences that the unsuccessful armed struggle has in his later life. The context surrounding the writing of the book is one of discredit to the concept of armed struggle as seen in democratic Spain and, in particular, in Catalonia. In contrast with that view, the author proposes a representation of the terrorist based on the individual, at a time when terrorism was a means to fight against a totalitarian governmentality, so that it consequently became partially legitimised. This recontextualization permits a re-evaluation of the violence taboo and the weakening of the Otherness barrier, thus disrupting the simplified and stereotyped perceptions of the menace and the threatened by using perspective and characterisation.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 51-66

Dates

published

2015-01-01

Contributors

author

Xavier Barceló Pinya

• Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, University of the Balearic Islands, Ctra de Valldemossa, km. 7.5, 07122, Palma, Balearic Islands

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2015.422.004