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Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War
At the end of the Spanish Civil War the Nationalist government instigated mass repression against anyone suspected of loyalty to the defeated Republican side. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned for political crimes in the weeks and months following 1st April 1939, including thousands of women who were charged with offences ranging from directing the home front to supporting their loved ones engaged in combat. Many women wrote and published texts about their experiences, seeking to make their voices heard and to counteract the dehumanising master narrative of the right-wing victors that had criminalised their existence. The memoirs of Communist women, such as Tomasa Cuevas and Juana Doña,...
Días de lluvia
Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzó or Cristina Fernández Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a p...
Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952
Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings together a range of Spanish and British specialists who offer an original and challenging overview of this violence. Contributors not only examine the mass killings and incarcerations, but also carefully consider how the repression carried out in the government zone during the Civil War - long misrepresented in Francoist accounts - seeped into everyday life. A final section explores ways of facing Spain’s recent violent past.
Mujer, franquismo y represión
Las mujeres han sido las grandes olvidadas de la lucha contra el franquismo. Siempre se las relegó, incluso por sus propios compañeros de viaje, a un lugar secundario. Su responsabilidad y su compromiso político eran, cuando no ignorados, al menos considerados como subsidiarios. No se tuvo en cuenta su militancia expresa, su lucha valiente y arriesgada en la retaguardia, imprescindible para sostener la más visible vanguardia masculina, y tampoco el alto precio que pagaron por ello. Hoy sabemos que hubo, además de mujeres en el frente, mujeres en la lucha clandestina, en la guerrilla, a las puertas de la prisión y en los trabajos de apoyo necesarios para mantener el esfuerzo bélico. Pe...
Escrituras de autoria feminina e identidades íbero-americanas
A obra Escrituras de autoria feminina e identidades ibero-americanas, organizada por Adriana Fiuza e Gabriela Grecco, reúne pesquisadores de diversos países e instituições, que se dedicam a pensar e a problematizar sobre a invisibilidade de escritoras na história e literatura ibero-americana. A obra busca reflexionar sobre a exclusão das mulheres no cânone literário, na produção de conhecimento e, consequentemente, no patrimônio cultural dos seus países e na construção de novos sentidos para a realidade.
Memories of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover from economic stagnation and social inequality. After Franco’s victory, the repression and purge that ensued immersed Spain in a spiral of fear and silence which continued long after the dictator’s death, through ‘the pact of oblivion’ that was observed during the transition to democracy. Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Community in Rural Spain attempts to break this silence by recovering the local memories of survivors of the Civil War and the early years of Franco’s dictatorship. Combining oral testimony gathered in one Andalusian village, with archival research, this ethnographic study approaches the expression of memory as an important site of socio-political struggle.
Transnational Orientalisms in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
In recent decades in Spain and Latin America, transnational voices, typically stereotyped, alienated or co-opted in the Western world, have been gaining increasing presence in cultural texts. The transnational representation of the “Oriental” subject, namely Arabs and Jews, Chinese and other ethnic groups that have migrated to Spain and Latin America either voluntarily or forcefully, is now being seen anew in both literature and cinema. This book explores Orientalism beyond literature, in which it has already garnered attention, to examine the new ways of seeing and interpreting both the Middle East and the East in contemporary films, in which many of the immigrants traditionally omitted...
La Guerra Civil como moda literaria
En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a una proliferación tan considerable de novelas sobre la Guerra Civil española quem sin duda, podemos claificar este fenómeno como una suerte de moda literaria. David Becerra se pregunta: ¿a qué se debe esta eclosión de títulos que parecen cuestionar el pacto de silencio y olvido de la Transición? Pero, ¿verdaderamente lo cuestionan?, ¿son novelas que reivindican la memoria histórica o, al contrario, solamente utilizan la Guerra Civil como telón de fondo? ¿Cómo nos están contando la Guerra Civil las novelas que se escriben en la actualidad? La respuesta es este libro. "La Guerra Civil como moda literaria propone un estudio riguroso de no...
