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Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War Modern Language Association of America Options for Teaching Joseph Gibaldi, Series Editor For a complete listing of titles, see the last pages of this book. Teaching Representations o f the Spanish Civil War Edited by Noël Valis The Modern Language Association of America New York 2007 © 2007 by The Modern Language Association of America All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America For information about obtaining permission to reprint material from MLA book publications, send your request by mail (see address below), e-mail ([email protected]), or fax (646 458-0030). 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
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