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En los últimos veinte años, el tema de la memoria se ha convertido en uno de los más debatidos tanto en las Humanidades como en las Ciencias Sociales y las Ciencias Naturales. Al mismo tiempo, la memoria se constituyó como uno de los posibles nexos entre diferentes disciplinas académicas debido a la importancia que actualmente tiene en ellas. El auge de la investigación sobre memoria se debe, por una parte, a los avances en las investigaciones sobre el funcionamiento del cerebro humano en las neurociencias. Por otra, con la necesidad de una redefinición histórica del individuo y de las comunidades o entidades políticas después de un siglo de dictaduras y regímenes totalitarios en varios países del mundo, entre ellos los que nos ocupan en este volumen sobre las culturas de la memoria, es decir, Alemania, España y algunos países de América Latina.
Memoria es una categoría central en la investigación en ciencias culturales y es también un tema principal en el arte y en el discurso político-social. El libro da una visión panorámica de los estudios de la memoria en diferentes disciplinas y en el ámbito internacional. Presenta de forma sistemática y detallada orientaciones destacadas, precisa las particularidades de los autores más reconocidos, ofrece categorías de análisis e incluye una amplia bibliografía. Los siete capítulos del libro introducen sendas perspectivas sobre el uso y los aportes de varias categorías y orientaciones teóricas sobre la memoria colectiva e individual, el recuerdo, así como las relaciones interdisciplinarias que se han tejido entre las aproximaciones a este campo.
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal with its past of mass killing, denial, and exclusion. Del Arco Blanco also pays attention to the way the Francoist authorities used monuments and memory for their political and ideological advantage and to control people, power as well as the political agenda. The book draws on extensive research to reconstruct both the specific history of monuments scattered throughout the country and their role within manipulative Francoist memory of the Spanish Civil War. In these ways, monuments helped shape the Francoist narrative and memory, but they also became part of the landscape of contemporary Spanish history. This book is an excellent resource for postgraduate students and professional researchers studying the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and the influence of monuments on the construction of national memory, culture, and society in Spain both at the time and through to the present day.
With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions – and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary – the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe – patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European ‘identity’, but rather to a European ‘mode’ of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities.Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.