Resources on Spain and Historical Memory

News and Magazine pieces for Introductions

  • Hedgecoe, Guy. “Spain tackles Franco’s ghost (again): Government to unveil Democratic Memory Bill.” Politico. September 15, 2020. – online here
  • Junquera, Natalia. “The enduring myths around Spain’s Historical Memory Law.” El País. July 1, 2019 – online here
  • “Spain’s Lost Generations: Franco’s Disappeared.” BBC Sounds, 2019, 28 mins. – online here
  • “Spain’s Lost Generations: The Lost Children.” BBC Sounds, 2019, 28 mins. – online here
  • Gilmartin, Eoghan. “Spain’s New Memory Law Will Finally Recognize Franco’s Victims: An Interview With Sebastiaan Faber.” Jacobin. October 4, 2020 – online here

KEY HISTORICAL WORKS ON HIStorical Memory in Spain

  • Wolfgram, Mark A. “Spain.” In Antigone’s Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries, 99-131. Bucknell University Press, 2019 – online at JSTOR
  • Faber, Sebastiaan. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography. Vanderbilt University Press, 2018 – online at JSTOR
  • Ramon Resina, Joan. The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society. Liverpool University Press, 2017 – online at JSTOR
  • Renshaw, Layla. Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Taylor & Francis, 2016. Access through Academia.edu
  • Boyd, Carolyn P. “The Politics of History and Memory in Democratic Spain.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 617, 2008: 133-148 – online at JSTOR
  • Aguilar, Paloma. Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy. Berghahn Books, 2002. (no free full text access)
  • Richards, Michael. After the Civil War: The Remaking of Spain Since 1936, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Access through Cambridge Core

Works On the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory

  • Delgado, Maria M. “Memory, Silence, and Democracy in Spain: Federico García Lorca, the Spanish Civil War, and the Law of Historical Memory.” Theatre Journal 67, no. 2 (2015): 177-96. Online at JSTOR
  • Crane, Susan A. “Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory.” The American Historical Review 102, no. 5 (1997): 1372-385. doi:10.2307/2171068. Online at JSTOR
  • Folch-Serra, Mireya. “The Internet as Site of Memory: Beholding Franco’s Repression in the 21 St Century.” Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos 36, no. 1 (2011): 227-42. Accessed March 16, 2021. Online at JSTOR

Other Works

  • Keene, Judith. “Review: Turning Memories into History in the Spanish Year of Historical Memory.” Journal of Contemporary History (2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036476
  • Zamora, Andrés. Featuring Post-National Spain: Film Essays. Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Documentaries

  • Billly. Dir Max Lemcke. 2020. See review at El País
  • The Silence of Others. Dir. Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, 2019. https://www.netflix.com/watch/81086605. See trailer and interview with directors at http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/silenceofothers/
  • Bones of Contention. Dir. Andrea Weiss. Jezebel Productions, USA, 2017, 75 mins.

PRIMARY SOURCES – FILM

  • Balada Triste de Trompeta (The Last Circus). Dir. Álex de la Iglesia, 2011.
  • The Blind Sunflowers (Los girasoles ciegos). Dir. José Luis Cuerda, 2008. 98 mins.
  • Pan’s Labyrinth, dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006. 119 mins.
  • The Spirit of the Beehive. Dir. Victor Erice, 1973, 97 mins.

PRIMARY SOURCES – LITERARY / ORAL HISTORY

  • The Spanish Civil War Memory Project. 2008-2010. Online at UCSD
  • Mangini Shirley. Memories of Resistance: Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War. Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Sender, Ramon. A Death in Zamora. 1989.

PRIMARY SOURCES – MEMORIALS

  • The Valley of the Fallen/Valle de los Caîdos.

Web Sites