1st Edition

Getting it Wrong in Spain From Civil War to Uncivil Peace (1936-1975)

Edited By Susana Belenguer Copyright 2015
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together different and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of republican ideals, contributors range over many diverse historical and cultural topics — discussing, for instance, the attitudes of both Left and Right to the poet Federico García Lorca and to his assassination,... Read more

Preliminary Note Susana Bayó Belenguer

1. Introduction Susana Bayó Belenguer

2. Myths of the International Brigades Richard Baxell

3. Argentina y el exilio republicano de 1939: las fronteras y el movimiento de solidaridad Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho

4. El Auxilio Social de Falange (1936_1940): entre la guerra total y el ‘nuevo estado’ franquista Ángela Cenarro

5. Lincoln Brigaders: Firsthand Accounts of French Camps, 1939 Robert S. Coale

6. The Impact of the Civil War on the Life and Work of Antonio Buero Vallejo Victor Dixon

7. Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalists in Toulouse: The Red-and-Black Counter-City in Exile Chris Ealham

8. The Persistence of Politics: The Impact of the Cold War on Anglo-American Writings on the Spanish Civil War George Esenwein

9. Swiss Consular Influence in the Aftermath of Franco’s Victory: The Case of Carlos Brunner Ralph Hug

10. Operation X: Soviet Russia and the Spanish Civil War Daniel Kowalsky

11. Subsistencia y actitudes populares durante el primer franquismo Carme Molinero

12. Memories of Defeat and Exile Harry Owens

13. The View from Next Door: The French Third Republic David Wingeate Pike

14. ¿Una agonía esperpéntica? Shifting Memory Horizons and Carnivalesque Representations of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship Alison Ribeiro De Menezes

15. Winners and Losers in Cinema and Memoirs: Emilio Martínez Lázaro’s Las 13 rosas and Esther Tusquets’ Habíamos ganado la guerra Paul Julian Smith

16. Lorca’s Agonía republicana and Its Aftermath Noël Valis

17. Playing with History and Hiding Treason: Colonel Casado’s Untrustworthy Memoirs and the End of the Spanish Civil War Ángel Viñas

Biography

Susana Bayó Belenguer is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

"Readers are sure to find much of interest in this substantial and diverse collection." - Tom Buchanan, Kellogg College, Oxford