Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War

614 Pages·2007·19.51 MB·Modern Language Association of America

by  Noël Maureen Valis

Teaching Representations
of the Spanish Civil War
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Credits
Demonic Roland. By David Salle. 1987. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 94 x 136
inches. The Eli and Ethyl L. Broad Collection, Los Angeles. © David Salle /
VAGA, New York / DACS, London 2005.
Franco at the moment of his consecration before the Christ of Lepanto, 20 May
1939. Daniel Sueiro and Bernardo Diaz Nosty, Historia del franquismo.
Madrid: Ediciones Sedmay, 1997. Vol. 1, p. 18.
Propaganda. Photograph by Hans Namuth. 1936. Posthumous reproduction
from original negative. © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate.
Ejército victorioso. Franco, Caudillo del Ejército, Caudillo de España.
(Victorious Army: Franco, Caudillo of the Army, Caudillo of Spain.)
Photograph by Pascual Marín. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte,
Archivo General de la Administración, Spain.
“How to Look at the Picasso Guernica Mural.” By Ad Reinhardt. PM 5 Jan.
1947: 6. © Estate of Ad Reinhardt / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
View of exterior of Spanish Pavilion, 1937 Exposition Internationale des
Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris. Photograph by François
Kollar. © Ministère de la Culture, France.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Teaching representations of the Spanish Civil War / edited by Noël Valis.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-87352-823-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-87352-824-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Spain—History—Civil War, 1936-1939—Study and teaching
(Secondary—United States. I. Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945-
DP269.A555T43 2006
946.081'071273—dc22
ISSN 1079-2562 2006030537
Cover illustration of the paperback edition: Manuel Monleón,
C.N.T. Comité Nacional A.I.T., Oficina de Información y Propaganda, 1936.
Poster from the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection, Mandeville Special
Collections Library, University of California, San Diego.
Published by The Modem Language Association of America
26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1789 www.mla.org
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Spain and the Spanish Civil War: Timeline of Events 1
Introduction 7
Noël Valis
Part I: Representations of Historical Contexts
Navigating the Historical Labyrinth
of the Spanish Civil War 23
Sandie Holguin
The Spanish Civil War as a National Conflict 33
Enríe Ucelay-Da Cal
Representations of the Civil War in Historiography 44
David K. Herzberger
The Spanish Civil War as a Religious Conflict 54
Mary Vincent
At Peace with the Past: Explaining the Spanish Civil War
in the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia 63
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
Part II: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the War
Advocacy and Undecidability: The Pedagogy
of the Spanish Civil War 75
Cary Nelson
Doctrine and Politics in Nationalist Spain 88
Michael Richards
Between Documentary and Propaganda:
Teaching The Spanish Earth 99
Adrian Shubert
V
vi Contents
The Question of Race in the Spanish Civil War 108
Michael Ugarte
War, Postwar, and the Fascist Fabrication of Identity 117
Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Class and Gender Representation in
Post-Civil War Spanish Narrative 130
Adelaida López de Martínez
Part III: Writing the War
Seeing the Spanish Civil War through Foreign Eyes 147
George Esenwein
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Volunteers:
Historical Contexts and Writings 160
Robert S. Coale
Teaching Allegory and Concealment: Covert
Dissent from within the Franco Camp 172
Janet Pérez
War and the Work of Poetry: Issues in Teaching
Spanish Poetry of the Civil War 184
Michael larocci
“Committed” (>) Writing in the Spanish Civil War 196
James Whiston
“Your Country Does Not Matter”: British and
Irish Writers on the Spanish Civil War 206
Kevin Foster
The French Literary Response to the War:
Malraux and Others 220
Denis Boak
German Literary Responses to the War 237
Peter Monteath
Teaching the Literature of the Spanish Civil War
in Spanish-to-English Translation 248
Carol Maier
Hemingway’s War 258
Noël Valis
Contents vii
Part IV: The Arts and the War
The Spanish Civil War in Films
from the Franco Period 269
Thomas Deveny
Representations of the Civil War in Post-Franco Cinema 281
Marvin D’Lugo
Iconography of the Nationalist Cause 289
Kathleen M. Vernon
The Documentary Dilemma and the Spanish Civil War 305
Geoffrey B. Pingree
Photography and the Spanish Civil War 317
Curtis Wasson
Learning from Guernica 328
Jordana Mendelson
Part V: Memory, Displacement, and the War
The Exile’s Dilemma: Writing the Civil War from Elsewhere 341
Sebastiaan Faber
Refugee Camp Warriors: Voices of Resistance
from the Batdeground of Exile 352
Francie Cate-Arries
Personal Narrative: A Bridge in Time 365
MargaretVan Epp Salazar
Teaching the Memory Texts of Spanish
Women during the Civil War 373
Shirley Mangini
The Witness in the Classroom: Survivor Oral
Histories of the Spanish Civil War 385
Gina Herrmann
Fighting the Long Battle of Memory: Autobiographical
Writing about the Spanish Civil War 398
Randolph D. Pope
Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary
as “After-Image” of the War 406
Joan Ramon Resina
viii Contents
Civil War Ghosts Entombed: Lessons
of the Valley of the Fallen 425
Noël Val is
Teaching History through Memory Work: Issues
of Memorialization in Representations of the
Spanish Civil War 436
Jo Labanyi
PartVI: Resources
María Crocetti and Noël Valis
Introduction 451
Cinematography
Documentaries 451
Feature Films 457
Music 462
Photography 463
Posters 464
Poetry 464
Prose
Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Dialogues 470
Biography, Memoirs, and Testimonies 479
Secondary Sources
History 481
Literature and the Arts 485
Web Sites 488
Part VII: Course Syllabi
Memory, History, Representation: The Spanish Civil War
and Its Aftermath 493
Jo Labanyi
To the Barricades: Civil War, Cultural Production,
and Gender in Spain 500
Tabea Alexa Linhard
Contents ix
Representations of, and Reactions to, the Spanish Civil War 506
James Mandrell
The Spanish Civil War: A Cultural History 513
Cristina Moreiras-Menor
The Spanish Civil War: Literature, History, and Culture 517
Stephanie Sieburth
A Clear-Cut Case: The Imaginings of the Spanish Civil War 523
Enríe Ucelay-Da Cal
The Spanish Civil War: Words and Images 527
Noël Valis
Glossary 531
Notes on Contributors 535
Works Cited 543
Index 591