Bearing witness to trauma in Josep Bartolí's "Campos de Concentración, 1939-194... (1944)": foundational images for a collective memory album of exile

• Autores: Francie Cate-Arries
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 25, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Catalan culture and the French camps, 1939: literary and visual representations / guest editor, Marta Marín-Dòmine), págs. 131-166
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In 1944, Josep Bartolí and Narcís Molins i Fàbrega published a visual and lyrical history of Spanish exile in French internment camps, a damning indictment of the guilty parties responsible for the dehumanized treatment of a civilian population held captive behind barbed wire. In this essay, I examine Bartolí's carefully sequenced drawings as a parallel narrative to Molins's vignettes, expressed through the language of the body in pain, the language of trauma. I analyze Bartolí's pioneering document of visual testimony within the corpus of Spanish refugee camp literature, placing it alongside much more recent "collective memory albums" published decades later