The Scenes of Memory during the Era of the Democratic Transition in Spain: Politics and Culture

• Autores: Gonzalo Vicente Pasamar Alzuria
• Localización: Historiografías: revista de historia y teoría, ISSN-e 2174-4289, Nº. 7, 2014, págs. 13-33
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article we shall examine the scenes of memory of the Civil War and the Franco era during the years of the transition to democracy in Spain, especially 1976 and 1977. After discussing the usefulness for research of the narratives describing the role played by such remembrances, we study the different interplays between memories and oblivions of those historical events. Instead of using memory and oblivion as static and predetermined ideas as is normally the case with such narratives, we highlight the dynamic elements that help organize them (generational changes, culture, political strategies, etc.). While culture became a fertile ground for the remembrance of the Civil War and the Franco era, politics was clearly obliged to limit its use because of the way the transition evolved.