Tracing the Cracks: Memory and Metonymy in Ray Loriga’s Lo peor de todo (1992) and Tokio ya no nos quiere (1999)
Abstract
This article contributes to historical memory debates and the first generation of writers to come of age after the transition to democracy by revisiting Ray Loriga’s Lo peor de todo (1992) and Tokio ya no nos quiere (1999). Many studies have refracted Loriga’s work to shine light on paradigms of desmemoria, amnesia and collective forgetting. In this article, I push back on these paradigms by showing how the use of material objects in Lo peor and screens in Tokio function as narrative devices, which highlight relationships between tekhnê, internal and external forms of memory and transmission.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Spanish Culture and Identity
Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
Latin American Literature Analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Bulletin of Spanish Studies
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 117–144
- Publication date
- 2 January 2026
- Language
- EN