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

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Montse Feu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
The Way

Fighting Fascist Spain connects some of the major figures of the Spanish Civil War exile with lesser-known actors, making their contributions more visible. While fascism ruled in Spain, España Libre’s authors cultivated a rich set of tools that interrogated the way fascist power operates. The underlying premise of this work is that the Confederadas’ antifascist solidarity was rooted in a cultural realm shaped by a complex web of political and cultural heritages that Spanish immigrants brought with them and were further reinforced by allies in the United States, which in turn built local and transnational antifascist communities. There are interlocking aspects that define España Libre’s cultural and political identity: its self-educated workers, its anarchist adaptability to exile, its transnational ties, its organized solidarity, and its transformative culture and humor.

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 generación de la no pertenencia: La literatura del exilio español en Francia

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 581-598
Author(s):  
Rita Rodríguez Varela
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Family History ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The Way

El exilio de una gran parte de la población durante la guerra civil española abrió el paso a una generación de escritores exiliados, unidos por la necesidad de expresar y dar sentido a la vivencia de un trauma. Escritores que en muchas ocasiones han sido olvidados o relegados a un segundo plano por la dificultad de clasificación. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar y profundizar en los diferentes temas que estos autores tratan en sus obras, tales como la experiencia de la guerra o del exilio, las consecuencias de la dualidad lingüística en su identidad, la necesidad de reconstruir la historia familiar y en el encuentro con la escritura, lenguaje liberador. A través de sus obras otorgan un nuevo significado al concepto de frontera, por lo que evaden las clasificaciones tradicionales. The exile of a large part of the population during the Spanish civil war opened the way for a generation of exiled writers, united by the need to express and give meaning to the experience of trauma. These writers have often been forgotten or relegated to the background because of their difficulty of classification. This article aims to analyze and delve into the different topics that these authors dealt with in their works, such as the experience of war or exile, the consequences of linguistic duality on their identity, the need to reconstruct family history and in the encounter with writing, a liberating language. Through their Works they gave a new meanig to the concept of frontier, and thus evade traditional classifications. L’exil d’une grande partie de la population pendant la guerra civile espagnole a ouvert une voie à une génération d’écrivains exilés, unis par la nécessité d’exprimer et de donner du sens à une expérience traumatique. Ces auteurs ont souvent été oubliés ou relégués au second plan à cause de la difficulté de classification. Cet article a pour but d’analyser et d’approfondir sur les différents thèmes que ces auteus abordent dans leurs oeuvres, tels que l’expérience de la guerre ou de l’exil, les conséquences de la dualité linguistique sur leur identité, la nécessité de reconstruire l’histoire familiale et la rencontre avec l’écriture, langage libérateur. À travers ses oeuvres, ils donnent un nouveau sens au concept de frontière et échappent aux classifications traditionnelles.

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 „Potem przemówił komendant Brygady naszej tow. Hiszpan w języku niemieckim i tow. kapt. tłumaczył”

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4(54)) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Tryuk
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Multilingual Communication ◽  
Foreign Language Skills ◽  
The Way

And Then the Commander of Our Brigade, Comrade Spanish, talked in German and Comrade Captain Interpreted. Interpretation in the International Brigades during the Civil War in Spain 1936-1939 The aim of the present article is to describe multilingual interactions at the XIII Jarosław Dąbrowski International Brigade between volunteers of different nationalities, mainly Poles, and the Spanish population as narrated by Boruch Nysembaum, a communist from Warsaw and a participant of the Spanish Civil War. At the same time, it is the first presentation of onthe- spot memoirs written by a volunteer who did not return from this war. On the basis of his narrative, the article tries to answer the questions concerning the way volunteers, who lacked adequate foreign language skills, communicated with the Spanish population and with other volunteers, the forms of their communications, and finally, the specific characteristics of this multilingual communication.

scholarly journals Su segunda posguerra : los refugiados republicanos en el sur de Francia, 1945-1947

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Cervera Gil
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Great Portion ◽  
The Way

Cuando terminó la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) los derrotados republicanos tuvieron que tomar el camino del exilio y una gran parte de ellos fijaron su residencia en Francia. El estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial fue entendido por la mayoría de estos exiliados españoles como la continuación de la lucha que hasta meses antes habían desarrollado en España. Por ello, muchos antifranquistas se implicaron en la resistencia contra los nazis creyendo que su victoria sobre ellos sería continuada inevitablemente por el fin del Régimen de Franco, aliado del Eje y por tanto enemigo de los Aliados.When finished the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the defeated republicans had to take the way of the exile and a great portion of them took their residence in trance. The out break of the Second World War was understand by the most of these spanish exiled as the fight continuation that unta months before had developed in Spain. For it, many antifranquists helped in the resistance versis the nazis thinking that their victory over them would be continued for the end of Franco's Regime axis allied, and so allied enemy.

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