After the Civil War: Making Memory and Re-Making Spain Since 1936

ISBN-13: 9780521899345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 414 str.

Michael Richards

Opis

Fascinating study of how the memory of Spain's bloody civil war has been contested from 1939 to the present.

Recenzje

'Richards' main strength is his superb capacity to read from different authors and very diverse sources, from newspapers to cultural histories, and to assemble them into a coherent narrative. The result is a book that delves into a broad array of topics and perspectives, from high culture to oral stories, that illuminate how the regime imposed its vicious and self-serving memory project onto an impoverished and traumatized society.' Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Introduction: cultural trauma in Spain; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. War memories since 1936: political, moral, social; 2. Democracy, civil war, and intimate violence in the 1930s; Part II. Memories of War during the Franco Years: 3. Repression and remembrance: the victors' liturgy of memory; 4. Repression and reproduction: social memory in the 1940s; 5. Memory and politics: from Civil War to Cold War; 6. Memory and migration: flight from the countryside during the 1950s; 7. Commemorating Franco's peace: the 25th anniversary of the victory; 8. Contesting Franco's peace: transformation from below in the 1960s; 9. Transition and reconciliation: politics and the Church in the 1970s; Part III. Memories of War after Franco: 10. Transition and consent: the presence of the past, 1975–80; 11. 'The level of our times': memory and modernisation, 1981–96; 12. Collective identity and the ethics of memory, 1996–2007; Conclusion: the history of war memories in Spain; Sources and bibliography.