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La memoria recobrada : huellas en la historia de los Estados Unidos = Memory regained : traces in the history of the United States = Oroitzapen berreskuratua : aztarnak Estatus Batuen historian / José Manuel Guerrero Acosta -- Ministros con el rey : la plenitud del Despotismo Ilustrado = "The ministers with the king" : the heyay of Enlightened Despotism = Ministroak erregearekin : Despotismo Ilustratuaren gailurra / José Luis Gómez Urdáñez -- La diplomacia de Carlos III : la rebelión de las colonias inglesas y la Paz de París (1773-1783) = The diplomacy of Charles III : the rebellion of the English colonies and the Paris Peace Treaty (1773-1783) = Karlos III.aren diplomazia : kolonia ingelesen matxinada eta Parisko bakea (1773-1783) / Eduardo Garrigues López-Chicheri -- Diego María de Gardoqui, testigo de la primera ceremonia inaugural del presidente de los Estados Unidos = Diego María de Gardoqui, present at the swearing-in of the first president of the United States = Diego María de Gardoqui lekuko izan zen Estatus Batuetako lehen presidentea izendatzeko zeremonian -- Ilustrado, comerciante y diplomático : la dimensión histórica de Diego de Gardoqui en la independencia de los Estados Unidos = Enlightenment figure, trader and diplomat, the historical contribution of Diego de Gardoqui to the independence of the United States = Ilustratua, merkataria eta deplomazialaria : Diego de Gardoquiren dimentsio historikoa Estatu Batuen independentzian / Begoña Cava Mesa -- España y la independencia de las Trece Colonias americanas = Spain and the independence of the thirteen American colonies = Espainia eta hamahiru kolonia amerikarren independentzia / Martha Gutiérrez-Steinkamp -- Vascos del siglo XVIII en el Oeste norteamericano = Eighteenth century Basques in the American North-West = XVIII. mendeko euskaldunak Estatu Batuetako mendebaldean / Luis Laorden Jiménez -- Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786) : un líder en una época revolucionaria = Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786) : leader in a revolutionary age = Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786) : aro iraultzaile bateko liderra / Agustín Guimerá Ravina --

The ambiguity between reality and fiction haunts Einar Már Guðmundsson's novel Hundadagar (Dog Days, 2015), as it is a fictional narrative about factual, historical figures and events, such as Jörgen Jörgensen, Rev. Jón Steingrímsson, Finnur Magnússon and Guðrún Johnsen, while the same can be said about many other novels labeled as postmodernism. Canadian literary scholar Linda Hutcheon coined the concept of historiographic metafiction to describe fictions as such, which are "intensely self-reflexive", while "paradoxically lay claim to historical events and personages". Hutcheon suggests that historiographic metafictions fully illuminate the very way in which postmodernism entangles itself with both the epistemological and ontological status of history. This paper begins with an introduction to Hutcheon's theoretical contributions on postmodernism, postmodern literature and the relationship between history and fiction, followed by a reading of Hundadagar as a historiographic metafiction. The narrator's strategies—such as parataxis, metanarrative comments, we-narrative discourse and documentary intertext—largely indicate an imitation, a revelation, or say, a parody of the process of historian's writings. The paper further suggests that it is the Icelandic financial crisis in 2008 that prompts the narrator to revisit the 18. and 19. century, since the financial crisis takes the role of a rupture of the Enlightenment ideals, leading to disorder and chaos. Moreover, the narrator finds an uncanny similarity between the past and the present, as if the history has been repeating itself. The spectre of history keeps (re)appearing in a deferred temporality. While revisiting the past, the narrator also (re)visits the present in an allegorical way. In a word, as a historiographic metafiction, Einar Már Guðmundsson's Hundadagar is "fundamentally contradictory, resolutely historical, and inescapably political", just as Hutcheon's perception of postmodernism.