"This volume is extremely valuable, not only for those contemplating teaching a course related to the Spanish Civil War (on either the war or any aspect of Spanish culture since the war), but also for readers interested in twentieth-century European culture."

Roberta Johnson

Professor Emerita, University of Kansas

"The volume demonstrates that instructors can use the Spanish Civil War as a course topic and an organizational theme from which students can comprehend the connections among rhetoric, ideology, memory, literature, and the arts."

Iker González-Allende

Midwest MLA Journal

The casebound edition of this title is out of print.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a national conflict with international significance, inspired strong responses from artists and writers on both sides of the Atlantic. The bombing of the Basque town Guernica, the assassination of the poet Federico García Lorca, and the defense of Madrid are just some of the events represented in painting, film, fiction, memoir, and history produced during the war years and since.

Courses dealing with the Spanish Civil War are given regularly in literature, foreign language, and history departments, in English and in Spanish. This volume in the MLA series Options for Teaching helps instructors plan courses that exploit the interdisciplinary, multigeneric opportunities present in the period's aesthetic output.

In thirty-five essays, contributors negotiate the complex relation between art and history in depictions of the war and its aftermath, exploring how memory is shaped. Key representations of the war, like Picasso's Guernica, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Rodoreda's La plaça del Diamant, Sender's Réquiem por un campesino español, and Capa's Falling Militiaman, find a place in this wide-ranging volume. In addition, coverage extends to less frequently taught works by Catalan, German, Irish, and Latin American novelists, poets, and visual artists. The volume concludes with a section of resources for further study and classroom use, including films, music, photography, Web sites, and course syllabi and commentaries.

Contributors

Denis Boak

Francie Cate-Arries

Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez

Robert S. Coale

María Crocetti

Thomas Deveny

Marvin D'Lugo

George Esenwein

Sebastiaan Faber

Kevin Foster

Gina Herrmann

David K. Herzberger

Sandie Holguín

Michael Iarocci

Jo Labanyi

Tabea Alexa Linhard

Adelaida López de Martínez

Carol Maier

James Mandrell

Shirley Mangini

Jordana Mendelson

Peter Monteath

Cristina Moreiras-Menor

Cary Nelson

Janet Pérez

Geoffrey B. Pingree

Randolph D. Pope

Joan Ramon Resina

Michael Richards

Margaret Van Epp Salazar

Adrian Shubert

Stephanie Sieburth

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal

Michael Ugarte

Kathleen M. Vernon

Mary Vincent

Curtis Wasson

James Whiston

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