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Lisa Vollendorf
This essay examines Carme Riera's "Dins el darrer blau" as a text hat engages fiction and history as mutually nurturing interpretive acts that can and should be used for ethical purposes. Riera's exploration of the seventeenth-century persecution of Majorcan Jews recuperates a story that had been told for centuries through a rhetoric of Catholic self-righteousness. In retelling that stsory, Riera reveals the power of language to influence cultural memory while invoking the moral and ethical imperatives of writing. Through a complex interplay between history and literature, Riera's recuperative aesthetic binds Catalan and Spanish readers to the plight of the Majorcan Jews and, consequently, constitutes a call to ethical uses of cultural memory.
