2011
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2011.11
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Returning to and from the Maternal Rural Space: Traumatic Memory, Late Modernity and Nostalgic Utopia in Almodóvar's Volver

Abstract: This article argues that Almodóvar's Volver (2006) confronts and 'works through' personal and collective traumas that return to haunt the present. The film thus functions as a powerful mode of witnessing. In Volver, the present and history have to be understood as undergoing a traumatic encounter. In addition, I propose that the film attempts to recuperate a utopian rural space as an alternative to the discontents produced by the dominant patriarchal and late-modern historical paradigm. However, such a utopian… Show more

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