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List of contents
Preliminary Note 1. Introduction 2. Myths of the International Brigades 3. Argentina y el exilio republicano de 1939: las fronteras y el movimiento de solidaridad 4. El Auxilio Social de Falange (1936_1940): entre la guerra total y el ‘nuevo estado’ franquista 5. Lincoln Brigaders: Firsthand Accounts of French Camps, 1939 6. The Impact of the Civil War on the Life and Work of Antonio Buero Vallejo 7. Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalists in Toulouse: The Red-and-Black Counter-City in Exile 8. The Persistence of Politics: The Impact of the Cold War on Anglo-American Writings on the Spanish Civil War 9. Swiss Consular Influence in the Aftermath of Franco’s Victory: The Case of Carlos Brunner 10. Operation X: Soviet Russia and the Spanish Civil War 11. Subsistencia y actitudes populares durante el primer franquismo 12. Memories of Defeat and Exile 13. The View from Next Door: The French Third Republic 14. ¿Una agonía esperpéntica? Shifting Memory Horizons and Carnivalesque Representations of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship 15. Winners and Losers in Cinema and Memoirs: Emilio Martínez Lázaro’s Las 13 rosas and Esther Tusquets’ Habíamos ganado la guerra 16. Lorca’s Agonía republicana and Its Aftermath 17. Playing with History and Hiding Treason: Colonel Casado’s Untrustworthy Memoirs and the End of the Spanish Civil War
About the author
Susana Bayó Belenguer is Assistant Professor ofHispanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Summary
This book presents new cultural and historical perspectives on the most mythologized and controversial period of Spanish history: the years of the Second Republic, the Civil War (1936-39), and the aftermath under Franco’s long dictatorship. It was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
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"Readers are sure to find much of interest in this substantial and diverse collection." - Tom Buchanan, Kellogg College, Oxford
