Contested History, Nostalgia, and Post-Memory in Spain

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

This talk considers how the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was represented in official history during the Franco dictatorship that followed it (1939-1975) and how culture has been employed to contest this representation in the post-dictatorship period.
It focuses on the memory boom, post-memory and Dulce Chacón’s 2002 novel, La voz dormida.

Department of Germanic and Romance Studies University of Delhi Winter school
Lest we forget: Entanglements of History and Memory
Period21 Jan 2025
Held atUniversity of Delhi, India
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Memory Studies
  • post-memory
  • Spanish literature
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Dulce Chacón
  • La voz dormida