[ecrea] New book: Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Community in Rural Spain

   With the usual apologies for the shameless self-promotion...

   I am pleased to announce the publication of my monograph /Memories of
   the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Community in Rural Spain/(Rowman
   and Littlefield International).

 http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/memories-of-the-spanish-civil-war

   The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and
   deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover
   from economic stagnation and social inequality. After Franco's
   victory, the repression and purge that ensued immersed Spain in a
   spiral of fear and silence which continued long after the dictator's
   death, through 'the pact of oblivion' that was observed during the
   transition to democracy. /Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Conflict
   and Community in Rural Spain/attempts to break this silence by
   recovering the local memories of survivors of the Civil War and the
   early years of Franco's dictatorship. Combining oral testimony
   gathered in one Andalusian village, with archival research, this
   ethnographic study approaches the expression of memory as an important
   site of socio-political struggle.

   "In this reflective oral history enquiry into the popular memory of
   the civil war in Spain, Ruth Sanz Sabido offers us pertinent and
   fascinating insights into the now disappearing world of village Spain,
   where the war is still being fought over. But as her study reminds us,
   this war is not so much the one actually waged in the late 1930s, as
   the one made and embedded discursively afterwards by the victorious
   and long-lived Franco dictatorship, a regime whose cultural and social
   power has lasted into the present day. This theoretically literate but
   still highly accessible account opens up for us the granular texture
   of local life and language, while also providing the crucial broad
   explanatory context to the memory wars raging in Spain today". Helen
   Graham, Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of
   London

   "Ruth Sanz Sabido's book makes a compelling case for treating Spain's
   collective dementia regarding its Civil War by contrasting the
   experiences of specific people and places with the myths created by
   the Franco regime and perpetuated by post-Franco governments. Her
   message comes none too soon. Time is running out for the generations
   that remember those experiences". Richard Barker, Spanish Professor
   Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

   "In its analysis of oral testimonies, Memories of the Spanish Civil
   War offers a superb combination of scientific rigour, empathy and
   sensitivity. By recuperating silenced voices from a community that is
   marked by the experience of Francoist violence, Ruth Sanz Sabido
   provides an essential insight into the complexity of individual and
   collective memory". Angela Cenarro, Professor in the Department of
   Modern and Contemporary History, Universidad de Zaragoza


Best wishes,

Ruth

Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
School Coordinator of International


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