Overview

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-Sanchez, Alex Bueno, Fernando Martinez Lopez, Miguel Gomez Oliver, Mary Ann Dellinger, Geoffrey Jensen, Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernandez, Maria del Mar Logrono Narbona, M. Cinta Ramblado Minero, Deirdre Finnerty, Victoria L. Enders, Pilar Dominguez Prats, Sofia Rodriguez Lopez, Oscar Rodriguez Barreira, Nerea Aresti, and Miren Llona. Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014

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Author:   Aurora Morcillo
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   93
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.027kg
ISBN:  

9789004259959

ISBN 10:   9004259953
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   04 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS; List of Contributors ix; List of Illustrations xv; Introduction: Post-Memory and Historical Agency; *Aurora G. Morcillo 1; PART ONE - INSTITUTIONAL REALMS OF MEMORY; From Anti-Fascism to Humanism: The Spanish Civil War as a Crisis of Memory; *Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez 21; Valle de los Caidos: A Monument to Defy Time and Oblivion; *Alex Bueno 51; Political Responsibilities in Franco's Spain: Recovering the Memory of Economic Repression and Social Control in Andalusia, 1936-45; *Fernando Martinez Lopez and Miguel Gomez Oliver 111; PART TWO - PAST IMPERFECT: GENDER ARCHETYPES IN RETROSPECT; The Battle to Defijine Spanish Manhood; *Nerea Aresti 147; From Militia Woman to Emakume: Myths Regarding Femininity during the Civil War in the Basque Country; *Miren Llona 179; The Republican Mother in Post-Transition Novels of Historical Memory: A Re-Inscription into Spanish Cultural Memory? *Deirdre Finnerty 213; PART THREE - THE MANY LANGUAGES OF DOMESTICITY; Embroidering the Nation: The Culture of Sewing and Spanish Ideologies of Domesticity; *Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernandez 249; The Mythopoeia of Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria; *Mary Ann Dellinger 285; PART FOUR - REALMS OF OBLIVION: HUNGER, REPRESSION, AND VIOLENCE; Franco's Bread: Auxilio Social from Below, 1937-1943; *Oscar Rodriguez Barreira 319; Corpus Delicti: Social Imaginaries of Gendered Violence; *Sofia Rodriguez Lopez 359; Locks of Hair/Locks of Shame? Women, Dissidence, and Punishment during Francisco Franco's Dictatorship; *M. Cinta Ramblado Minero 401; PART FIVE - STRANGERS TO OURSELVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONIES; Chelo's War: Late Memories of a Falangist Woman; *Victoria L. Enders 437; Memories of War and Exile: Two Autobiographical Narratives of Exiled Women; *Pilar Dominguez Prats 467; Contents; Contents V; PART SIX - THE ORIENT WITHIN: MYTHS OF HISPANO-ARABIC IDENTITY; Military Memories, History, and the Myth of Hispano-Arabic Identity in the Spanish Civil War; *Geofffrey Jensen 495; Carmencita Goes East: Francoist Cultural Discourses about the; Middle East; *Maria del Mar Logrono Narbona 533; Conclusion: Ricoeur's Le Pouvoir De Faire Memoire; *Aurora G. Morcillo 557; Index 565

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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).

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