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"The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain--even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped how our views of the civil war (1936-39) and its long, painful aftermath. Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain's relationship to its past. In this shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped how our views of the civil war (1936-39) and its long, painful aftermath book, Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain--from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos--provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to rethink their practice and priorities and to engage more often, and more intentionally, with a broader audience."--Provided by publisher

The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in "historical memory", marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took place in the spring of 2010, in order to point to a series of structural problems, particularly the tendency on the part of opinion makers —including academic historians writing as media personalities— to monopolize the right to "tell the story of the past," a claim based on a naïve invocation of scholarly historical knowledge as factual truth. The essay's first part addresses the role of historians and academic history in the media. The second part analyzes the ethnocentric position of some Spanish liberal intellectuals faced with the internationalization of transitional justice. The third part takes a critical look at the way that Spain's "media intellectuals" help to prevent a truly democratic mode of discussing the collective past. ; Durante la pasada década se ha incrementado el interés de los medios de comunicación y de la sociedad civil española por la "memoria histórica", interés que se ha puesto de manifiesto, entre otras cosas, en algunos debates relacionados con el pasado reciente (1931-1981). En estos debates han participado historiadores profesionales y otros actores sociales, desde escritores y directores de cine a ciudadanos activistas. El presente ensayo analiza una de las interminables polémicas que tuvo lugar en la primavera de 2010 con el fin de destacar algunos problemas estructurales, especialmente la tendencia de parte de los creadores de opinión —incluidos historiadores académicos que actúan como figuras mediáticas— a monopolizar el derecho de "contar el pasado" a partir de la ingenua reivindicación de que el conocimiento histórico profesional procede de la verdad factual. La primera parte del ensayo aborda el papel de los historiadores y la historia académica en los medios. La segunda analiza la posición etnocéntrica que adoptan algunos intelectuales liberales españoles cuando se enfrentan a la internacionalización de la justicia transicional. La tercera parte critica la manera en la que los "intelectuales mediáticos" en España impiden la discusión verdaderamente democrática del pasado colectivo.

Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume's 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.