Narrating War in Peace: The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today

by Katherine O. Stafford

Overview

Through case studies of prominent cultural products, this book takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil War in democratic Spain. Stafford explores the stories told about the war during the transition to democracy and how these narratives have morphed in light of the polemics about historical memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137501493
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/02/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	197
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Katherine Stafford is Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Photojournalism and Memory: Agustí Centelles in the Transition and Today
2. Jaime Camino's Evolving Dialectic: The Reconstruction of the Spanish Civil War through Filmed Testimony in the Transition and Today
3. Archeology of an Icon: The Discursive Networks of Picasso's Guernica in the Transition and Today
4. Searching for the Spanish Epic: Antonio Muñoz Molina's La noche de los tiempos and the Evolution of the Spanish Civil War Novel
Conclusion: Is Spain a Post-Conflict Culture?

Editorial Reviews

"For the breadth and significance of the works studied - including prose fiction, photographs, paintings, and films - as well as the currency and import of the issues discussed and the overall accessibility of the writing, this substantial book will be equally useful as a scholarly source for researchers and as a most valuable reading for graduate and undergraduate seminars." - Jorge Marí, North Carolina State University, USA

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