1st Edition

Living the Death of Democracy in Spain The Civil War and Its Aftermath

Edited By Susana Belenguer, Ciaran Cosgrove, James Whiston Copyright 2015
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era. In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish... Read more

Preliminary Note Susana Bayó Belenguer

1. Introduction Susana Bayó Belenguer

Part I: Cinema

2. Las 13 rosas (2007): el cine como reconstructor de memoria Igor Barrenetxea Marañón

3. Spanish Cinema during the Final Year of the Civil War: The Republicans’ Last Documentaries and Francoist Triumphalism Magí Crusells

4. Bio-Pic/Death Story: Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s Las 13 rosas Thomas Deveny

5. Triunfalismo nacional y mística guerrera en ¡Harka! y ¡A mí la Legión! Diana Roxana Jorza

6. La Guerra Civil en el cine espan˜ ol de la democracia o cómo perduran los mitos Marie-Soledad Rodriguez

Part II: Literature

7. Los intelectuales y escritores republicanos frente a la derrota: la visión de los novelistas Maryse Bertrand De Muñoz

8. ‘La guerre est toujours là’: Defeat, Exile and Resistance in the Works of Jorge Semprún Csilla Kiss

9. Escribir el trauma en femenino: las obras de Agustin Gomez-Arcos y Dulce Chacón Sophie Milquet

10. Irish Literary Responses to the Spanish Civil War - With Particular Reference to Peadar O’Donnell’s Salud! An Irishman in Spain (1937) Ute Anna Mittermaier

11. El concepto ‘España’ como desencadenante de la moral de Victoria en la poesía de la Guerra Civil española Pilar Molina Taracena

12. Bearing Witness: Carlota O’Neill’s Una mujer en la Guerra de España Part III: History Catherine O’leary

Part III: History

13. The ‘Salamanca Papers’: Plunder, Collaboration, Surveillance and Restitution Peter Anderson

14. El relevo en la propaganda oficial de la Guerra Civil española: de Jaume Miravitlles a Dionisio Ridruejo Ester Boquera Diago

15. La voluntad del retorno: correspondencia desde el exilio catalán Gemma Caballer Y Queralt Solé

16. Ireland and the Fall of the Second Republic in Spain David Convery

17. Propaganda in Franco’s Time Mireya Folch-Serra

18. Fracturas de guerra: los niños de la Guerra Civil española en el Reino Unido y la Unión Soviética Magdalena Garrido Caballero

19. Casado’s Ghosts: Demythologizing the End of the Spanish Republic Helen Graham

20. Spanish Refugee Children in France, 1939: An Insight into Their Experiences, Opinions and Culture Célia Keren

21. Apátridas republicanos en campos de concentración Nazis Edith S. Leni

22. The Victors Write History, the Vanquished Literature: Myth, Distortion and Truth in the XV Brigade Daniel Pastor García and Antonio R. Celada

Biography

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

Ciaran Cosgrove is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Head of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

James Whiston is Emeritus Professor in 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