History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 22 2002

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 22 2002

Introduction: a political funeral.(Manuel de Falla)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Before daybreak on 14 November 1946, in the Argentine province of Cordoba, Manuel de Falla passed away suddenly in his sleep, a few days before his seventieth birthday. The death of Spain's greatest twentieth-century composer marked the...

A difficult nation? History and nationalism in contemporary Spain.
September 22, 2002... The aim of this study is to show how the concept of Spain prevailing today originates from the nationalist ideology of the nineteenth century. The creation of this concept served both to justify the new power relations established during the...

History and collective memories of migration in a land of migrants: the case of Iberian Galicia *.
September 22, 2002... More than five million Spaniards left their country between the mid-nineteenth century and the early 1970s, though this was gross rather than net emigration. Prior to 1950 most were headed for Latin America--particularly Argentina, Cuba and...

"Being politico" in Spain: an ethnographic account of memories, silences and public politics.
September 22, 2002... This article focuses on attitudes toward participation in public politics (being politico) in contemporary Spain and the ways in which they have been affected by the violence and fear generated by the Francoist regime (1939-1975). Social...

Memory beyond the public sphere: the Francoist repression remembered in Aragon.
September 22, 2002... In the last decade several monographs on the Francoist repression at the local and regional levels have been published. The consolidation of democracy has resulted in the appearance of books and articles about some of the most painful episodes...

Collective memory and national identity in the Spanish democracy: the legacies of Francoism and the Civil War.
September 22, 2002... Twenty-six years have passed since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in November 1975, and in June 2002 Spain celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first democratic elections since the Second Republic (1931-1936), the...

From war culture to Civil society: Francoism, social change and memories of the Spanish Civil War *.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... SUBJECTIVITY AND MEMORIES OF CIVIL WAR In her moving account of Catalan Civil War exiles in Nazi prison camps, the author, Montserrat Roig, speaks about her own inspiration found in the wartime letters of the Republican Pere Vives i Clave...

"Your comrades will not forget": revolutionary memory and the breakdown of the Spanish Second Republic, 1934-1936 *.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... According to George Mosse, the cult of the fallen soldier formed an inexorable part of the memories of World War I. Images portraying the suffering and death of the soldiers helped create the Myth of the War Experience and provided it with...

The second battle of Covadonga: the politics of commemoration in modern Spain *.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... In the Spanish national mythopoeia the battle of Covadonga is remembered as the "cradle of the Reconquest." Fought in the mountain fastness of the Picos de Europa in northern Spain in 718, just seven years after the Muslim invasion had...

The formation of Spanish identity and its adaptation to the age of nations.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Any consideration of the emergence of a collective "Spanish" identity in the modern period must first take into account a salient historical fact: the union of kingdoms achieved by the "Catholic Kings," the Trastamara cousins Ferdinand and...