Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion

Neuausgabe 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25995-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

The authors in this anthology explore how we are to rethink political and social narratives of the Spanish Civil War at the turn of the twenty-first century. The questions addressed here are based on a solid intellectual conviction of all the contributors to resist facile arguments both on the Right and the Left, concerning the historical and collective memory of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship in the milieu of post-transition to democracy. Central to a true democratic historical narrative is the commitment to listening to the other experiences and the willingness to rethink our present(s) in light of our past(s). The volume is divided in six parts: I. Institutional Realms of Memory; II. Past Imperfect: Gender Archetypes in Retrospect; III. The Many Languages of Domesticity; IV. Realms of Oblivion: Hunger, Repression, and Violence; V. Strangers to Ourselves: Autobiographical Testimonies; and VI. The Orient Within: Myths of Hispano-Arabic Identity.
Contributors are Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Álex Bueno, Fernando Martínez López, Miguel Gómez Oliver, Mary Ann Dellinger, Geoffrey Jensen, Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, M. Cinta Ramblado Minero, Deirdre Finnerty, Victoria L. Enders, Pilar Domínguez Prats, Sofia Rodríguez López, Óscar Rodríguez Barreira, Nerea Aresti, and Miren Llona.

Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Morcillo, Aurora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Aurora G. Morcillo, Ph.D. (1995) University of New Mexico, is Professor of History at Florida International University. Her publications include The Seduction of Modern Spain. The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (Bucknell University Press, 2010), True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000 and 2008) and En cuerpo y Alma: Ser mujer en tiempos de Franco (Editorial Akal, forthcoming).