Spanish Civil War Cinema and the Transition to Democracy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Grace Munsil
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy

Memory and Amnesia. The Role of the Spanish Civil War in Transition to Democracy

Hispania ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Antonio Sobejano-Morán ◽  
Paloma Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy

scholarly journals The Nurses No-One Remembers: Looking for Spanish Nurses in Accounts of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-92
Author(s):  
Sioban Nelson ◽  
Paola Galbany-Estragués ◽  
Gloria Gallego-Caminero
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Franco Dictatorship ◽  
International Volunteer

Accounts of Spanish nursing and nurses during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) that appear in the memoirs and correspondence of International Brigade volunteers, and are subsequently repeated in the secondary literature on the war, give little indication of existence of trained nurses in country. We set out to examine this apparent erasure of the long tradition of skilled nursing in Spain and the invisibility of thousands of Spanish nurses engaged in the war effort. We ask two questions: How can we understand the narrative thrust of the international volunteer accounts and subsequent historiography? And what was the state of nursing in Spain on the Republican side during the war as presented by Spanish participants and historians? We put the case that the narrative erasure of Spanish professional nursing prior to the Civil War was the result of the politicization of nursing under the Second Republic, its repression and reengineering under the Franco dictatorship, and the subsequent national policy of “oblivion” or forgetting that dominated the country during the transition to democracy. This policy silenced the stories of veteran nurses and prevented an examination of the impact of the Civil War on the Spanish nursing profession.

scholarly journals The Scenes of Memory during the Era of the Democratic Transition in Spain: Politics and Culture / Los escenarios de la memoria durante la transición democrática en España: política y cultura

2017 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Pasamar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
The Way

In this article we shall examine the scenes of memory of the Civil War and the Franco era during the years of the transition to democracy in Spain, especially 1976 and 1977. After discussing the usefulness for research of the narratives describing the role played by such remembrances, we study the different interplays between memories and oblivions of those historical events. Instead of using memory and oblivion as static and predetermined ideas as is normally the case with such narratives, we highlight the dynamic elements that help organize them (generational changes, culture, political strategies, etc.). While culture became a fertile ground for the remembrance of the Civil War and the Franco era, politics was clearly obliged to limit its use because of the way the transition evolved.Key Words:Memory, Spanish Civil War, Transition, generation gap.ResumenEn el presente artículo examinamos los escenarios de la memoria de la Guerra Civil y del franquismo durante los años de la transición a la democracia en España, especialmente 1976 y 1977. Tras discutir la utilidad de las narrativas que han dado cuenta del papel que tales recuerdos han jugado durante de la Transición, estudiamos la interrelación entre los recuerdos y los olvidos de dichos acontecimientos históricos. En lugar de utilizar la memoria y el olvido como ideas predeterminadas y estáticas, subrayamos los elementos dinámicos de ambos (cambios generacionales, cultura, estrategias políticas, etc.). Defendemos que mientras la cultura llegó a convertirse en un terreno destacado para la evocación de la Guerra y el franquismo, la política se trazó a sí misma una serie de límites en el uso de dicha evocación debido al modo en que se desarrolló la propia Transición.Palabras clave:memoria, guerra civil española, Transición, brecha generacional

scholarly journals Re-framing the Spanish Civil War as ‘Cultural Trauma’: When Responsibilities Get Blurred After Violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Rafael Pérez Baquero
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
The Social

The aim of this article is to address to what extent some institutional form of remembering the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a collective trauma could be considered an instance of Jeffrey Alexander and Neil Smelzer´s notion of ’cultural trauma‘. Or to put it in other words, in which sense the notion of cultural trauma may cast a new light on one of the different ways in which the Spanish Civil War was remembered and retold during the transition to democracy (1977-83). Spanish society remembered the war as a collective trauma, so painful that it encouraged society to promote a ‘pact of oblivion’ toward victims of Francoist repression. According to this traumatic memory, the Spanish Civil War was a ‘fratricidal struggle’, whose outbreak was a consequence of the tensions that underlie Spanish history. It led to the blurring of distinctions between victims and culprits because both sides were considered equally responsible. Therefore, everyone could claim the ownership of suffering. However, this representation did not fit in with the historical records; it was a consequence of the social influence of some ‘memory makers’ that developed new narratives and re-defined the ownership of suffering. Because of this divergence between the historical record of the war and society’s traumatic memory of it during the transition to democracy, I would like to analyse the possibility of studying the nature of the latter by means of the concept of cultural trauma. After all, Alexander´s critique of psychoanalytical insight into collective trauma could be useful when analysing traumatic historical experiences where it is not clear whether the traumatic nature of those memories come from the events themselves or from the cultural frames that attributed significance to those events.

Teatri della memoria. Rivisitando il revisionismo in Spagna

2009 ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Javier Rodrigo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
Memory Recovery ◽  
The One

- A few years after it initiated, the so-called ‘revisionist offensive' in Spain seems to have produced questionable results. On the one hand, its arguments have failed to enter professional historiography; on the other hand, however, its unquestionable sell and media popularity have turned it into a social phenomenon. In addition, historians have not reached an agreement about how to reply to it. Finally, on both sides, the definition, the origins and the limits of the phenomenon do not seem to have been the object of discussion. This is what we intend to analyse in this article. Key words: Revisionism, Negationism, Spanish Civil war, collective memory, Spanish transition to democracy, ‘memory recovery'.

scholarly journals Los espacios de la memoria en la sociedad actual: teoría e historia”. Crónica de la jornada de estudios del 8 de mayo de 2014 / “The Place of Memory in Current Society: Theory and History”. Chronicle of the Study Session Held on 8 May 2014

2017 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Pablo Aguirre Herráinz
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
Study Session ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
The University

This article reviews the study session held on 8 May 2014 at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) under the title “The place of Memory in Current Society: Theory and History”. Promoted by Historiografias, revista de historia y teoría and the Project of research “The memory of the Spanish Civil War during the Spanish Transition to Democracy”, four Spanish specialists, Professors Manuel Reyes Mate, Pedro Piedras Monroy, Francisco Erice Sebares, and Santiago Ripol Carulla, discussed the topic of memory and its challenges in current society.Key wordsNational memories, collective and family memories, hermeneutic remembrance, politics of memory, Historical Memory.ResumenEl presente artículo reseña la jornada de estudios celebrada el pasado 8 de mayo de 2014 en la Universidad de Zaragoza, titulada “Los espacios de la memoria en la sociedad actual: teoría e historia”. Promovida por Historiografias, revista de historia y teoría y por el Proyecto, “La memoria de la guerra civil española durante la transición a la democracia”, cuatro especialistas, los profesores, Manuel Reyes Mate, Pedro Piedras Monroy, Francisco Erice Sebares y Santiago Ripol Carulla, disertaron sobre el tema de la memoria y sus desafíos en la sociedad actual.Palabras claveMemorias nacionales, memorias colectiva y familiar, recuerdo hermenéutico, políticas de la memoria, Memoria Histórica.

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