The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain

Labanyi, Jo

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“…At the centre of the controversy was the 'Law of recognition and extension of rights to victims of the civil war and the dictatorship', known in the media as 'Law of Historical Memory', which aimed to 'recognize and extend the rights of and establish measures for those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the dictatorship'. As Jo Labanyi (2008) points out, the law was the subject of much controversy in the media, and conservative newspapers such as El Mundo and ABC expressed their shared regret that the government had disturbed the ghosts of the past and opened up the can of worms of historical memory. As a bizarre example of this 'memory fever', Labanyi refers to the: 'Obituary war' that followed the publication in the national press, on 17 July 2006, of a death notice for the first Republican officer shot by the rebel troops, submitted by his daughter on the grounds that obituary for Republican victims had been banned during the dictatorship; this provoked a flurry of such notices commemorating other victims 'vilmente asesinados por las hordas rojas', countered by further notices on the Left, until the hostilities petered out in 2007.…”

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Filling the voids of memory: Alzheimer’s disease and recent history in Nedar and Bucarest, la memòria perduda

López

2014

Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies

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After the Franco dictatorship, the politics of the past in Spain became a problematic issue. The work of mourning those defeated during the Spanish Civil War had to be postponed during Francoism and recovered during the transition to democracy, a process marked by intense public debates on the history and memory of the Spanish Civil War. During the course of the last decade, the grandchildren of the combatants started to literally unearth the dead and tried to recover their memory. The Catalan documentaries made in 2008, Nedar (Carla Subirana) and Bucarest, la memòria perduda (Albert Solé), give Alzheimer’s disease a key role in the storytelling of the recent past. This article deals with the representation of that disease, understood as a metaphor for the forgetting of history, and the historical and theoretical implications derived from the use of fiction and archival images as means of filling the voids of memory.

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Filling the voids of memory: Alzheimer’s disease and recent history in Nedar and Bucarest, la memòria perduda

López

2014

Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies

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“…First, the presence of what Peter Novick has called ‘the attitude toward victimhood’ in American culture (Novick , 8): the disappearance of the hero in a traditional sense from the narrative, and the point of departure in the experience of the individual victim and/or his or her descendants in the grand majority of novels. As pointed out by Jo Labanyi, such a victimization discourse runs the risk of constructing history as something done to people, negating individual agency (Labanyi , 120). Second, many novels, especially those that combine a representative and a cosmopolitan mode, are dominated by a preoccupation with the fate of the individual subject, so that questions of a social or political character – that is, questions concerning the negotiation of collective subjects and identities – are converted into moral and ethical challenges on an individual level.…”

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Modes of Remembering in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

Hansen

2016

Orbis Litterarum

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This article examines the way in which the topic of civil war and Francoist repression has been narrated and understood in the contemporary Spanish novel after the turn of the millennium. The boom in what the article calls ‘the affiliative memory novel’ has been intimately related to the activities conducted by popular movements dedicated to the so‐called recuperation of the historical memory, but whether and to what extent is it possible to describe the phenomenon at hand as a coherent sub‐genre? It is a hypothesis that the way in which the relation between past, present and future is imagined in the text is, at least to some extent, related to the narrative form in which the novels are told, and by combining two paradigms of modal description, one narrative and the other ethico‐political, the article proposes eight different modes of remembering, among which three are considered more typical or generic. Finally, these three modes, the essentializing, the reconciliatory and the metamodernist modes, are examined and discussed within a transnational perspective.

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“…Historical memory and the politics of memory have become central topics in the humanities (Labanyi 2008). Communication studies are increasingly featuring memory, with television, in particular, leading the way in terms of the study of collective memory as represented in the media.…”

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Radio, memory and conflict: Reconstructing the past in Documentos RNE

Castelló

Montagut

2015

Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast &Amp; Audio Media

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In this article we adopt a cultural approach to radio, and specifically to radio documentaries about recent Spanish history, focusing on an analysis of Documentos RNE, which, from 1999 to date, has been broadcasting documentaries that employ the vast sound archives of Radio Nacional de España (RNE). The archives and their use in historical memory programmes represent a true national repository with which to reconstruct collective memory. Through a more detailed analysis of five documentaries broadcast between 2008 and 2014, we examine major topics such as the Second Republic, the Civil War, the postwar period, the Franco dictatorship and the Transition to Democracy. The article show how Documentos RNE included the mentioned topics in its list of programmes and what type of audiovisual language resources were common on the reconstruction of the past.

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The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain

Cited by 49 publications

References 2 publications

Filling the voids of memory: Alzheimer’s disease and recent history in Nedar and Bucarest, la memòria perduda

Filling the voids of memory: Alzheimer’s disease and recent history in Nedar and Bucarest, la memòria perduda

Modes of Remembering in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

Radio, memory and conflict: Reconstructing the past in Documentos RNE

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