Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain (Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity)

292 Pages·2011·2.15 MB·English

by  Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (editor), Catherine O'Leary (editor)

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normally studied in isolation from one another due to linguistic s a
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divergences. The book contains an important theoretical survey of d
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cultural memory today and a comparative analysis of the historical ’L
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background influencing studies of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. a
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It includes the work of eleven specialists on contemporary Spanish (
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and Portuguese history, culture and literature and establishes a series s
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of parallel themes that lace the chapters together: resistance; literary •
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Legacies of War and Dictatorship
in Contemporary Portugal and Spain
Iberian and Latin American Studies:
The Arts, Literature and Identity
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Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham
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Legacies of War
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Legacies of war and dictatorship in contemporary Portugal and Spain /
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Catherine O‘Leary [editors].
p. cm. -- (Iberian and Latin American studies: The arts,
literature and identity ; 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-3-03911-872-4 (alk. paper)
1. Portuguese literature--History and criticism. 2. Collective
memory--Portugal. 3. Spanish literature--History and criticism. 4.
Collective memory--Spain. 5. Media and cultural memory. 6.
Dictatorship in literature. 7. Collective memory and literature. I.
Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison, 1969- II. O‘Leary, Catherine, 1971-
PQ9018.L44 2011
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Cover image: John Breakey, Uneasy Calm (1989), oil on canvas.
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Contents
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Catherine O’Leary
Preface ix
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Introduction: Cultural Memory and the Legacies of War
and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain 1
Portugal 35
Mark Sabine
Refitting the Lexicon of Resistance:
Saramago, Symbolism and Dictatorship 37
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
Jaime Nogueira Pinto’s Portrait of Salazar: A New Departure? 67
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Cultural Memory and Intergenerational Transfer:
The Case of Inês Pedrosa’s Nas Tuas Mãos 79
Isabel Moutinho
Fighting Oblivion: Persistence of Colonial War Memory
in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 103
vi
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Memories of Portugal’s Angolan War: Os Cus de Judas and
D’Este Viver Aqui Neste Papel Descripto by António Lobo Antunes 117
Spain 133
Susana Bayó Belenguer
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as Franco 135
Catherine O’Leary
Memory and Restoration: Jerónimo López Mozo’s
El arquitecto y el relojero 149
Lorraine Ryan
When the Personal is Political: The Formation of a Republican
Mnemonic Community in Alfons Cevera’s La noche inmóvil 169
Mercedes de Grado
Eugenics and Annihilation in Francoist Women’s Prisons:
Memory and Testimony in La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón 187
María Cinta Ramblado-Minero
Women and the Transmission of the Republican Legacy
in Contemporary Spanish Cinema 211
Gabrielle Carty
A Cinematic Hybrid: El laberinto del fauno and
Film Representations of the Spanish Civil War 229
vii
References 241
List of Contributors 261
Index 265