Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War

Aurora G. Morcillo, Ph.D. (1995) University of New Mexico, is Professor of History at Florida International University. Her publications include The Seduction of Modern Spain. The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (Bucknell University Press, 2010), True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000 and 2008) and En cuerpo y Alma: Ser mujer en tiempos de Franco (Editorial Akal, forthcoming).

• CONTENTSList of Contributors ixList of Illustrations xvIntroduction: Post-Memory and Historical Agency*Aurora G. Morcillo 1PART ONE - INSTITUTIONAL REALMS OF MEMORYFrom Anti-Fascism to Humanism: The Spanish Civil War as a Crisis of Memory*Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez 21Valle de los Caidos: A Monument to Defy Time and Oblivion*Alex Bueno 51Political Responsibilities in Franco’s Spain: Recovering the Memory of Economic Repression and Social Control in Andalusia, 1936–45*Fernando Martinez Lopez and Miguel Gomez Oliver 111PART TWO - PAST IMPERFECT: GENDER ARCHETYPES IN RETROSPECTThe Battle to Defijine Spanish Manhood*Nerea Aresti 147From Militia Woman to Emakume: Myths Regarding Femininity during the Civil War in the Basque Country*Miren Llona 179The Republican Mother in Post-Transition Novels of Historical Memory: A Re-Inscription into Spanish Cultural Memory?*Deirdre Finnerty 213PART THREE - THE MANY LANGUAGES OF DOMESTICITYEmbroidering the Nation: The Culture of Sewing and Spanish Ideologies of Domesticity*Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernandez 249The Mythopoeia of Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria*Mary Ann Dellinger 285PART FOUR - REALMS OF OBLIVION: HUNGER, REPRESSION, AND VIOLENCEFranco’s Bread: Auxilio Social from Below, 1937–1943*Oscar Rodriguez Barreira 319Corpus Delicti: Social Imaginaries of Gendered Violence*Sofia Rodriguez Lopez 359Locks of Hair/Locks of Shame? Women, Dissidence, and Punishment during Francisco Franco’s Dictatorship*M. Cinta Ramblado Minero 401PART FIVE - STRANGERS TO OURSELVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONIESChelo’s War: Late Memories of a Falangist Woman*Victoria L. Enders 437Memories of War and Exile: Two Autobiographical Narratives of Exiled Women*Pilar Dominguez Prats 467ContentsContents V PART SIX - THE ORIENT WITHIN: MYTHS OF HISPANO-ARABIC IDENTITYMilitary Memories, History, and the Myth of Hispano-Arabic Identity in the Spanish Civil War*Geofffrey Jensen 495“Carmencita” Goes East: Francoist Cultural Discourses about theMiddle East*Maria del Mar Logrono Narbona 533Conclusion: Ricoeur’s Le Pouvoir De Faire Memoire*Aurora G. Morcillo 557Index 565