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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 16, Issue 1, 2003
Volume 16, Issue 1, 2003
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Fighting fascism
By Anna GoppelThis article analyses German and Austrian women’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War. It discusses what motivated their decision to go to Spain, analyses their social and political background and examines their journey, arrival and involvement in Spain. Not only the nature of the women’s involvement in Spain is of interest, but also the questions of how many supported the Republic, when they began to be involved, where they came from, and how they got to Spain.
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The woman in Portuguese fado-singing
By Manuela CookThis article argues that the way in which women are portrayed in Portuguese fado-singing can be shown to bear a significant relation to some important aspects of twentieth-century Portuguese cultural and political history. These include the reports that the Virgin Mary appeared before three children near the village of Fátima in Portugal and the ensuing development of a great Catholic pilgrimage centre at that location. Also to be considered is the establishment of the Estado Novo, the ‘New State’, the regime that, mainly under the leadership of Salazar, would govern Portugal for over forty years, during which time there were good Church-State relations. Fado became a regime-encouraged entertainment and was elevated to Portugal’s national song. This article seeks to explain a particular image of woman that occurs in fado lyrics, in the context of the devotion to Our Lady of Fátima and theEstado Novo’s general policy.
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Conflicting values in contemporary Galicia
More LessThis article analyses and attempts to explain conflicting views about the value associated with Galician in contemporary Galicia. It does so by tracing the possible source of these conflicting values historically, from the effects of language contact with Spanish since the fourteenth century, right through to attempts made to revive Galician in the late nineteenth century to the current sociolinguistic situation in the context of the twenty-first century. It explores the reasons why the number of Galician speakers continues to decline despite the seemingly more favourable attitudes towards the language amongst the Galician population.
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The transition(s) to democracy and discourses of memory
More LessThis article examines the tension between two competing interpretations of the transition to democracy in the Spanish State. It will investigate the strategies used by the ‘official’ discourse, as expressed in El País, aiming to achieve a closure with the past along the lines of an epic, and thus to legitimize the present status quo. It will also look into the ‘divergent’ interpretation of the Catalan daily Avui for which there are two different transitions to democracy: the one already completed by Catalonia even before the death of Franco and the other carried out by the rest of Spain, which has not been completed as yet. Through its use of a ‘reality’ discourse Avui aims at (1) downplaying the ‘mythical’ passage to democracy of the official discourse; and (2) reinforcing the Catalan ‘historical memory’ which demands a recognition of the role of Catalans in the process of democratization in Spain and their long-standing democratic credentials which other Spaniards are constructed as still lacking.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Shelley Godsland, Alvaro Jaspe, Alex Longhurst, José M. Magone and Jackie CannonThe Companion to Hispanic Studies, Catherine Davies (ed.) (2002) London: Arnold, viii+198 pp., ISBN 0-340-76298-5 (paperback), ISBN 0-340-76297-7 (hardback)
Don Juan de Borbón, Julio Aróstegui, (2002) Madrid: Arlanza Ediciones, 191 pp., ISBN 84-95503-33-6 (paperback)
The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000: Language Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals, José del Valle and Luis Gabriel-Stheeman (eds.), (2002) London and New York: Routledge, xiv + 237 pp., ISBN 0-415-25256-3 (hardback)
Política Externa e Política de Defesa do Portugal Democrático, José Medeiros Ferreira (ed.) (2001) Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 232 pp., ISBN 972-772-221-0 (paperback)
Te Toca, Richard Pym and Mark Allison (2002) London: Arnold, viii + 285 pp., ISBN 0-3440-74073-6 (paperback)
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