Mi guerra, tu guerra

This paper presents an overview of general trends in a selection of representations of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to the present in literature and film, arguing that two different versions of the conflict have developed since the nationalists' victory in 1939. It begins by examining how, following the rapid internationalization of the conflict in 1936, the Civil War was considered increasingly as a battle between ideological absolutes, European artists or writers in particular electing to defend one cause over the other through their artistic representations of the conflict. However, with the defeat of the Spanish Republic, the war rapidly became a metaphor for the failure of ideological commitment in many subsequent European representations of the war. Yet, while these tend to treat the Civil War as international property, the pro-nationalist propaganda of the franquist era and the silence of the Transition are now giving way in both Spanish and international literature and film to attempts to reclaim a national memory of the Civil War. The article concludes by considering how these might influence subsequent non- Spanish representations of the war

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Ideology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Silence · Spanish Civil War · Victory · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish History and Politics

• Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Twenty-First Century Anglophone Novels (2000–14)

  Lisa Lines•Journal of War and Culture Studies•2016

  Add to list

• Pour une sociologie du roman

  Frederic Grover, Lucien Goldmann•Modern Language Notes•1965

  Add to list

• Authoritarian Fictions

  Susan Rubin Suleiman•Poetics Today•1984

  Add to list