Historical Memory and Postmemory in the Pluricultural Hispanic Context

Wars, persecutions, genocides involving groups, communities or entire peoples generate collective trauma. The response to this trauma activates psychological mechanisms that lead to its removal, alteration, distortion and progressive elaboration. Collective trauma and the social processes generated by it, which drive the recovery of the memory of the violent event suffered, repeat the mechanisms of individual trauma –that is, an "unclaimed experience". in Spain, the recovery of historical memory, the reparation and dignification of the victims by the different governments that have succeeded one another is still largely pending. According to this perspective, the different categories of victims and the concept of the 'curved time of memory' are analyzed, as well as the literary representations of the phenomenon of Historical Memory and Postmemory in the Hispanic peninsular context.