HISP 357 - Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course explores how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped historical memory in Spain. How has democratic Spain dealt with the legacy of the civil war, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition? And how have academics, writers, filmmakers, photographers, and journalists engaged with a collective process that is central to the countrys future as a unified, functioning democracy? These questions have unleashed a spirited series of battles in the Spanish public sphere, particularly since the emergence around the year 2000 of the memory movementa grassroots phenomenon that helped prepare the ground for the convulsive changes that have reshaped the country’s political landscape. Taught in English, with optional half-course in Spanish (HISP 358).