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.

"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

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

Inhalt

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 in the Transition and Today
4. Searching for the Spanish Epic: Antonio Muñoz Molina's and the Evolution of the Spanish Civil War Novel
   Conclusion: Is Spain a Post-Conflict Culture?