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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 29, Issue 1, 2016
Volume 29, Issue 1, 2016
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Barcelona and the Tragic Week of 1909: A crazed mob or citizens in revolt?
Authors: Josep M. Pons-Altés and Miguel A. López-MorellAbstractThe Tragic Week of 1909 was one of the most disruptive events in contemporary Spanish history. This article seeks to reconsider the nature of the events based on the previously unseen personal archive of the then interior minister Juan de la Cierva. Evidence indicates that the chaotic, anticlerical, anti-military nature of the events should not be exaggerated, since there were many different motives. It also suggests that we should look beyond Barcelona. The uprising actually affected dozens of Catalan municipalities, it was to a certain extent coordinated, included very few anticlerical attacks outside the city of Barcelona (and even within the city they were not the only expression of revolt), and featured no anti-military discourse. A fundamental feature of the Tragic Week, of which the authorities were fully aware, is that it was also a revolutionary, republican uprising.
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An intimate diplomatic view: The Spanish Civil War according to the personal diaries of the Soviet Consul Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
More LessAbstractThis article examines the Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War through the personal diaries of the Consul General of the USSR in Barcelona. Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko completed five diaries sent to the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR during the month of October 1936. In these diaries, he recounted his personal impressions as well as his activity of his initial stay in the Catalonian capital, which offer an intimate view and detailed picture of the Soviet intervention in Spain. Winning the war was the central objective of Soviet Consulate in Spain, in accordance with the principles of Soviet Collective Security Policy. This central objective, focused on trade relations, military operations and particular relationship with the anarchists and the regional Government of Catalonia and the Government of the Republic, did not show the slightest hint of wanting to sovietize the Spanish Republic. For this reason, the historiographical debate about the logic of Soviet intervention in Spain has a new proof against the thesis of a preconceived plan to impose the soviet political, social and economic model on Spain in 1936.
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The Republic and the Church – Isidro Gomá: From Bishop of Tarazona to Primate of Spain
More LessAbstractSpanish historiography has dealt almost exclusively with the figure of Isidro Gomá as the Primate of the Church in Spain, an office in which he supported and legitimized for the benefit of the Catholic world the rebellion of 18 July 1936 that triggered the Civil War. However, little is known of Gomá’s activity prior to attaining such an elevated post. This article examines, through the study of primary sources, his work as Bishop of the small diocese of Tarazona and Tudela, where he believed that his vehement opposition to secular reforms would make him an example to follow among the extremist anti-republican sectors of the Church and would turn him into the ideal candidate for the position of Primate of Spain at the Holy See.
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Memory, modernity and generational recognition in Juan Copete’s Soliloquio De Grillos
More LessAbstractThe enormous amount of documentaries and novels published in Spain during recent decades about the Spanish Civil War and the repression during the Franco Regime show a clear interest in the study of the Historical Memory and how the aftermath of this conflict is not only still alive, but continues to define Spain today. Contemporary Spanish theatre has not exempted itself from this ongoing dialogue and recuperation of Spain’s national past, although it has not garnered as much critical and popular attention as novels or films. This article is a contribution to the current attempts to fill this gap, analysing one of the first dramas dedicated to Historical Memory in Spain: Soliloquio de Grillos (2003). Written by the Extremaduran playwright Juan Copete, the text also foreshadows in its structure and subjects other pieces that years later would have a very important place in the development of the theatre of Memory, such as Laila Ripoll’s Los niños perdidos (2005) and Gracia Morales’s NN12 (2010).
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A politics of listening in Isabel Coixet’s Escuchando al juez Garzón (2011)
More LessAbstractThe coincidence of Baltasar Garzón’s recent trial, which evaluated the legality of certain investigations he conducted as Audiencia Nacional judge, and the bicentennial of La Pepa, Spain’s first though brief experiment in democratic constitutionalism, invite reflection on the state of democracy in Spain. This article on Catalonian director Isabel Coixet’s documentary primarily explores the practice of listening in the filmed interview of Garzón, Escuchando al juez Garzón (Coixet, 2011), and the relationship between listening and democracy that comes to light within the context of the commemoration of La Pepa concurrent to the trials that suspended Garzón from the bench for eleven years. This piece begins by drawing from the work of documentary scholar Bill Nichols and political scientist Susan Bickford, respectively, for its analysis of the voice of the documentary and the practice and promotion of democratic listening.
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Reviews
Authors: Jared D. Larson, Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones, Stephanie Wright and Marta del PozoAbstractIberian Modalities: A Relational Approach to the Study of Culture in the Iberian Peninsula, Joan Ramon Resina (ed.) (2013) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 271 pp., ISBN: 9781846318337, h/bk, £75.00
Narrating War in Peace: The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today, Katherine Stafford (2015) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 197 pp., ISBN: 9781137501493, h/bk, $95
Franquismo a ras de suelo: Zonas grises, apoyos sociales y actitudes durante la dictadura (1936–1976), Claudio Hernández Burgos (2013) Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 447 pp., ISBN: 9788433855787, p/bk, £25.36
Cultures of Anyone: Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis, Luis Moreno-Caballud (2015) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 305 pp., ISBN: 9781781381939, h/bk, £75.00
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 37 (2024)
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Volume 36 (2023)
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Volume 35 (2022)
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Volume 34 (2021)
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Volume 33 (2020)
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Volume 32 (2019)
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Volume 31 (2018)
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Volume 30 (2017)
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Volume 29 (2016)
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Volume 28 (2015)
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Volume 27 (2014)
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Volume 26 (2013)
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Volume 25 (2012)
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Volume 24 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 23 (2010)
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Volume 22 (2009)
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Volume 21 (2008)
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Volume 20 (2007)
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Volume 19 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 18 (2005)
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Volume 17 (2004)
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Volume 16 (2003 - 2004)
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Volume 15 (2002 - 2003)
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Volume 14 (2001)