From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in Yugoslavia

• Autores: Alma Prelec
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 203-220
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It is estimated that between 1936 and 1939 over 1,600 Yugoslavs travelled to Spain to fight in the Civil War. The volunteers became national symbols of the fight against fascism in the Balkans and are referred to as transnational heroes: “Naši Španci” (our Spaniards). Historian Eric Hobsbawm describes this phenomenon as a romanticized, external nostalgia, noting that the Civil War is remembered outside of Spain “like the heart-rending and indestructible memory of a first great and lost love,” but that this “is not the case in Spain itself, where all experienced the tragic, murderous and complex impact of civil war,...