Lost In Transition Constructing Memory In Contemporary Spain
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Lost In Transition Constructing Memory In Contemporary Spain
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Author : H. Rosi Song
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Lost In Transition Constructing Memory In Contemporary Spain written by H. Rosi Song and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain’s transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current political, financial and cultural crises through fiction, film, and television.
Performing The Transition To Democracy
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Author : David Rodríguez-Solás
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-08-08
Performing The Transition To Democracy written by David Rodríguez-Solás and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-08 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped contemporary Spanish politics and society. The dominant narrative of the Transition has long portrayed it as a normalized, non-confrontational, and consensual process steered by political elites. But the world of Spanish theater tells a very different story - one in which ordinary Spaniards played a vital role in the transition to democracy. The chapters of this book draw on censorship files, photographs, audiovisual and textual material, and the author’s own interviews with more than a dozen audience and troupe members. Using these sources, David Rodriguez-Solas examines the notable experimentation during this period with theatrical performance and music; the establishment of performing spaces and festivals; the development of touring networks as a way to evade censorship; and the creation of networks of support that opposed diverse forms of violence and repression. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in theater and the cultural and political history of Spain in the 1960s and 1970s.
Women Political Prisoners After The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Ruth Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Women Political Prisoners After The Spanish Civil War written by Ruth Fisher and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with History categories.
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, have heavily influenced our understanding of life in prison for women under franquismo, while texts by non-Communist women have largely been ignored. This monograph offers a comparative study of the life writing of female political prisoners in Spain, focusing on six texts in particular: the two volumes of Cárcel de mujeres by Tomasa Cuevas; Desde la noche y la niebla by Juana Doña; Réquiem por la libertad by Ángeles García-Madrid; Abajo las dictaduras by Josefa Garcia Segret; and Aquello sucedió así by Ángeles Malonda. All the texts share common themes, such as describing the hunger and repression that all political prisoners suffered. However, the ideologically-driven narratives of Communist women often foreground representations of resistance at the expense of exploring the emotional and intellectual struggle for survival that many women political prisoners faced in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. This study nuances our understanding of imprisoned women as individuals and as a collective, analysing how women political prisoners sought recognition and justice in the face of a vindictive dictatorship. It also explores the women's response to the spirit of convivencia during the transition to democracy, which once again threatened to silence them.
Fictional Portrayals Of Spain S Transition To Democracy
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Author : Anne L. Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-21
Fictional Portrayals Of Spain S Transition To Democracy written by Anne L. Walsh and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This manuscript looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. The main focus here is how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact. One effect of this is to challenge readers or spectators to question the effect the reliability of the narrator has on conviction about the events told. By using a specific moment in time, Spain’s Transition, it will be seen that memory, history and imagination all blend together to create very different stories, but all are linked with the idea that the past will always haunt the present and actions from the past will have far-reaching consequences. Texts analysed here include work by Javier Cercas, Eduardo Mendoza, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Rosa Montero, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Gonzalo López Alba, as well as episodes from two popular TV series, Cuéntame cómo pasó and Protagonistas de la Transición.
The Ghost In The Constitution
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Author : Joan Ramon Resina
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-30
The Ghost In The Constitution written by Joan Ramon Resina and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.
Featuring Post National Spain
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Author : Andrés Zamora
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Featuring Post National Spain written by Andrés Zamora and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis- -vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in through all possible variations of the road and travel movie genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in Spanish cinema, taken as a collective discourse, which ties together these four cinematic topoi and proposes a nation whose specificity must be precisely its impurity-difference within as essence-a hybrid nation located in temporal and spatial rendezvous of past and present, tradition and novelty, centre and margin, inside and outside, on and beyond.
Dramatized Societies Quality Television In Spain And Mexico
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Author : Paul Julian Smith
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-29
Dramatized Societies Quality Television In Spain And Mexico written by Paul Julian Smith and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Performing Arts categories.
The first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries – Spain and Mexico -- where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative
Feeling Sick The Early Years Of Aids In Spain
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Author : Dean Allbritton
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-15
Feeling Sick The Early Years Of Aids In Spain written by Dean Allbritton and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-15 with History categories.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. The earliest traceable accounts of the AIDS outbreak in Spain began to emerge during its political transition to democracy, with small clusters of cases appearing as early as 1981. HIV/AIDS would go on to shape Spain throughout its pivotal period as a fledgling democracy, underpinning the cultural explosions of the Movida, a sharp rise in intravenous drug use, and the struggles of a coalescing LGBT+ community. Feeling Sick: The Early Years of HIV/AIDS in Spain examines the cultural history of these early years of HIV/AIDS in Spain as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture, fiction film, and the so-called risk groups that lived through the epidemic. The book draws on the work of Raymond Williams to characterize this emergent period within a structure of “feeling sick” and thus defined by discordant voices, disagreement, and meaning-making in a period of history in formation. Through close readings of Spanish visual culture and media alongside analysis of historical and medical documents, it asserts that a structure of feeling sick begins to coalesce around the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces out a distinctive sense of living through history as it unfolds. By critically evaluating a selection of cultural materials, this book claims that the earliest years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Spain reveal common fears about global connectivity, the proliferation of vulnerable ties to others, and the potential of cultural and physical contaminations. Ultimately, Feeling Sick challenges the dominant narratives in which life and disease are seen as separate and unequal, and in which illness is only destructive and devastating. An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.
Contemporary European Crime Fiction
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Author : Monica Dall'Asta
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-04-20
Contemporary European Crime Fiction written by Monica Dall'Asta and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries. It asks how the genre’s excavation of Europe’s history of violence and protest in the twentieth century is informed by contemporary political questions. It also considers how the genre’s progressive reimagining of new identities forged at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality is offset by its bleaker assessment of the corrosive effects of entrenched social inequalities, political corruption, and state violence. The result is a rich, vibrant collection that shows how crime fiction can help us better understand the complex relationship between Europe’s past, present, and future. Seven chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Antigone S Ghosts
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Author : Mark Wolfgram
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019
Antigone S Ghosts written by Mark Wolfgram and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the problems of human societies, families, and individuals caught up in the aftermath of mass violence. Through comparison of Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey, we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories.