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SPPO2620 - Module Reading List

The Spanish Civil War as Cultural Representation and Historical Memory, 2012/13, Semester 1, 2
Dr Stuart Green
s.n.s.j.green@leeds.ac.uk

Set texts

Official text of the ‘Ley de la Memoria Histórica: [http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/12/27/ ]

Altarriba, Antonio and Kim (2009), El arte de volar.

Barricada (2009),La tierra esta sorda [sound recording]. [CD, available to download on i-tunes].

Berger, Lisa and Carol Mazer (1986),De toda la vida [videorecording] [documentary; available on-line].

Buero Vallejo, Antonio (1998), Misión al pueblo desierto [ed. by Virtudes Serrano and Mariano de Paco]

Cruz, José (2008),Los Vivos y los M(ios)

Loach, Ken (1995), Land and Freedom [film].

Montes Salguero, Jorge (2006), Del olvido a la memoria available on-line at http://www.youtube.com

Palacios, Manuel (2004), Rejas en la memoria available on-line at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8808650723334526071

RTVE (2007-present), Amar en tiempos revueltos [television series] available on-line at http://www.rtve.es/television/amarentiemposrevueltos.shtml

Saenz de Heredia, José Luis (1941), Raza [film].

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Spanish Civil War

Aldgate, Anthony (1979), Cinema and history : British newsreels and the Spanish Civil War (London: Scolar Press).

Alpert, Michael (1994), A new international history of the Spanish Civil War (Basingstoke: Macmillan).

Anderson, James (ed.) (2003), The Spanish Civil War : a history and reference guide (Westport/London: Greenwood Press).

Blinkhorn, Martin (ed.) (1986), Spain in conflict 1931-1939 : democracy and its enemies (London: Sage).

Brenan, Gerald (1990), The Spanish Labyrinth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Carr, Raymond (ed.) (1971),The Republic and the Civil War in Spain (London: Macmillan).

----- (1986), Images of the Spanish Civil War (London: Allen and Unwin).

Castells, Antoni (2002), ‘Revolution and Collectivizations in Civil War Barcelona 1936-1939’, in Angel Smith (ed.), Red Barcelona : social protest and labour mobilisation in the twentieth century (London: Routledge), pp. 127-41.

Ealham, Christopher and Michael Richards (eds) (2005), The splintering of Spain : cultural history and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Esenwein, George and Adrian Shubert (1995), Spain at war : the Spanish Civil War in context, 1931-1939 (London: Longman).

Fraser, Ronald (1981), Blood of Spain: The Experience of Civil War 1936-1939 (Harmondsworth: Penguin).

Graham, Helen (1999), ‘’Against the State’: A Genealogy of the Barcelona May Days’, European history quarterly, 29 (4), pp. 451-542. [accessed on-line via the library website].

----- (2005), The Spanish Civil War : a very short introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Kenwood, Alun (ed.) (1993), The Spanish Civil War : a cultural and historical reader (Oxford: Berg).

Lannon, Frances (2002), The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing).

Preston, Paul (1996), A concise history of the Spanish Civil War (London: Fontana).

----- (1999), Comrades! : portraits from the Spanish Civil War (London: Harper Collins).

Richards, Michael (2006), A time of silence : civil war and the culture of repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Ruiz, Julius (2005), Franco's justice : repression in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

Shelmerdine, Brian (2006), British representations of the Spanish Civil War (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

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The Politics of Memory and Historical Memory in Spain

Aguilar, Paloma (2001),Justicia, politíca y memoria : los legados del Franquismo en la trasición Española. (Madrid: Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones).

Álvarez, Asunción et al. (eds) (2004), La memoria de los olvidados : un debate sobre el silencio de la represión franquista (Valladolid/León: Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica).

Barricada (interview with). Accessed on-line at: http://www.contratiempohistoria.com/programas/057_contratiempo%2017-05-10.mp3

Brito, Alexandra Barahona de, Carmen Enríquez González and Paloma Aguilar (eds) (2001),The politics of memory : transitional justice in democratizing societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [accessed on-line via library website]

Connerton, Paul (1989), How societies remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Davies, Madeleine (2005), ‘Is Spain Recovering its Memory?’, Human rights quarterly, 27 (3), pp. 858-80. [accessed on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v027/27.3davis.html ]

Hodgkin, Katherine and Susannah Radstone (eds) (2003), Contested pasts : the politics of memory (London: Routledge).

International journal of Iberian studies (2008), 21 (3), special issue on historical memory in contemporary Spain. [journal accessed on-line via library website]

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (2008), 9 (2), special issue: ‘The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain’. [journal accessed on-line via library website]

Juliá, Santos (ed.) (2004), Víctimas de la guerra civil (Madrid: Temas de Hoy).

Juliá, Santos (ed.) (2006), Memoria de la Guerra y del franquismo (Madrid: Taurus).

Labanyi, Jo (2007), ‘Memory and Modernity in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil War’, Poetics Today, 28 (1), pp. 89-116.

Radstone, Susannah (ed.) (2000), Memory and methodology (New York; Oxford: Berg).

Resina, Joan Ramón (ed.) (2000), Disremembering the dictatorship : the politics of memory in the Spanish transition to democracy (Amsterdam: Rodopi).

Richards, Michael (2006), ‘Between memory and history: Social relationships and ways of remembering the Spanish civil war’, International journal of Iberian studies, 19 (1), pp. 85-94. [journal accessed on-line via library website.

Silva Barrera, Emilio and Santiago Macías (2003), Las fosas de Franco : los republicanos que el dictador dejó en las cunetas (Madrid: Temas de Hoy).

Treglown, Jeremy (2009), ‘The Legacy of the Spanish Civil War’, Granta, 105, pp. 17-43.

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Other

Ackelsberg, Martha (2001), Free women of Spain : anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)

Balfour, Sebastian and Paul Preston (eds) (1999), Spain and the great powers in the twentieth century (London; New York: Routledge).

Brown, Freida S. (ed.) (1989), Rewriting the good fight : critical essays on the literature of the Spanish Civil War (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press).

Buchanan, Tom (2007), The impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain : war, loss and memory (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press).

Caparrós Lera, J.M. (2000), Estudios sobre el cine español del franquismo, 1941-1964. Valladolid: Fancy Ediciones.

Cary, Nelson (ed.) (1996), Shouts from the wall : posters and photographs brought home from the Spanish Civil War by American volunteers : a catalogue to accompany the exhibit curated by Peter Carroll and Cary Nelson for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. (Waltham, Mass.: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives).

Doménech, Ricardo (1973), El teatro de Buero Vallejo : Una meditación española (Madrid: Gredos).

Faber, Sebastiaan (2008), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War : Hispanophilia, commitment, and discipline (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

Foxá, Agustín de (1993), Madrid de corte a checa (Barcelona: Planeta).

Fraser, Ronald (1981), Blood of Spain (Harmondsworth: Penguin).

Graham, Helen and Jo Labanyi (eds) (1995), Spanish cultural studies : an introduction : the struggle for modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Gubern, Román (1977), Raza : (un ensueño del General Franco). Madrid: Ediciones 99. [Note that this book examines Espíritu de una raza and was written before the original version was re-discovered in a film archive in Berlin].

Hayward, Susan (2006), Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts, 3rd edn. London: Routledge.

Herrmann, Gina (2003), ‘Voices of the Vanquished: Leftist Women and the Spanish Civil War’, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 4 (1), pp. 11-29.

Holguín, Sandie (2002), Creating Spaniards : culture and national identity in Republican Spain (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press).

Jackson, Angela (2002), British women and the Spanish Civil War (London: Routledge).

Kaplan, Temma (1971), ‘Spanish Anarchism and Women's Liberation’, Journal of contemporary history, 6 (2), pp. 101-110.

----- (1977), ‘Other Scenarios: Women and Spanish Anarchism’, in R. Bridenthal and C. Koonz (eds), Becoming Visible: Women in European History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), pp. 400-21.

Leigh, Jacob (2002), The cinema of Ken Loach : art in the service of the people (London: Wallflower Press).

Mangini, Shirley (1995), Memories of Resistance : women's voices from the Spanish Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press).

McKnight, George (ed.) (1997), Agent of challenge and defiance : the films of Ken Loach (Trowbridge: Flicks Books).

Nash, Mary (1993), ‘Women in War: Milicianas and Armed Combat in Revolutionary Spain, 1936-1939’, International history review, 15 (2), pp. 269-282.

----- (1995), Defying male civilization : women in the Spanish Civil War (Denver: Arden Press).

O’Leary, Catherine (2005), The theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo : ideology, politics and censorship (Woodbridge: Tamesis).

Scanlon, Geraldine (1976), La polémica feminista en la España contemporánea : (1868-1974) (Madrid: Siglo XXI).

Screen (2001) 42 (2), special debate: ‘Trauma and Screen Studies’. [journal accessed on-line via library website]

Vincent, Mary (1999), ‘The Martyrs and the Saints: Masculinity and the Construction of the Francoist Crusade’, History workshop journal (47): 69-98.

Winter, Ulrich (ed.) (2006), Lugares de memoria de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo : representaciones literarias y visuales (Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana; Vervuert).

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Available from module coordinator

Halsey, Martha T. (2001), ‘El tiempo y la historia: Misión al pueblo desierto desde el contexto del teatro de Buero’, Estreno, 27 (1), pp. 22-8.

This list was last updated on 26/07/2012