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This 12 page paper discusses the various aspects of Carmen Martin Gaite's book, The Back Room and especially illustrates how the popular culture worked in the narrator's favor to counter the indoctrination policies of the government. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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from the animals. One of these aspects is that of culture, which it can be argued, continues to evolve just as mankind tends to change and evolve. In Carmen
Martin Gaites book, The Back Room, the protagonist manages to counteract the oppressive indoctrination by the state through the influences of cultural and/or popular culture. SYNOPSIS
The time of trial is over for the protagonist and yet the scars remain. The narrator, suffering from writers block, is visited by a strange man in black. He
states that he is a journalist and is there to be interviewed as they had arranged earlier. Through her continued dialogue with him she becomes aware of just how far
reaching and damaging the regime of Francos had been. Also, she begins to question her memories. Was she remembering events correctly, or are they being shaped by the emotions that
still linger from the time? She states: "There is always a dreamed text, vague and fleeting, that precedes the one that is actually recited and is swept away by it"(Gaite2000).
This novel seems quite surreal in that even ordinary objects take on deeper meanings. For example, many representations of the popular culture appear in
the narrators apartment and intrude upon her thought processes. She writes that they are "fingered for such a long time, they become emptied of all their content"(Gaite 2000).
How Popular Culture influences a society "literature is a challenge to logic... not a refuge against uncertainty," states the mysterious journalist dressed in
black. This statement underscores what the narrator does psychologically to counteract all of the governments propaganda during an oppressive time. Indeed, popular culture has acted in this capacity ever since
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