Spanish Civil War

Anindya Raychaudhuri is British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews. His research interests focus on the collective memory and cultural representation of war and conflict.

A valuable contribution containing essays on a wide range of topics, including religion, foreign support, Nationalist artists, anarchist visual culture, the press, and contemporary cultural production. Jo Labanyi, New York University

• Introduction Anindya Raychaudhuri Chapter 1: Franco, the Catholic Church and the Martyrs Julian Casanova Chapter 2: American Women and Anti-Fascism in the Spanish Republican Relief Campaigns, 1936-1940 Eric R. Smith Chapter 3: Forgotten Names, Remembered Faces - The Bookshop Manager John D. Mehta Chapter 4: At their most vulnerable: the memory of British and Irish prisoners of war in San Pedro de Cardena David Convery Chapter 5: The Tragic Exodus: Malaga, February 1937 Andres Arenas and Enrique Giron Chapter 6: (Per)Forming Historical Memories: Leaving Monuments for Magazines Clare Wydell Chapter 7: The Spanish Civil War and the Politics of Affectivity in the New Millennium: The Case of la guerra de esquelas Helena Lopez Chapter 8: The Seige of the Alcazar of Toledo and the Collier's Weekly Mercedes Aguirre Chapter 9: Dust to Dust: Symbolism of Earth in the Memorialisation of the Spanish Civil War Anindya Raychaudhuri Chapter 10: 'Grieving in a New Way for New Losses': British Elegies on The Spanish Civil War Patricia Rae Chapter 11: 'It's the Art of Always Falling on Your Feet!' Exile, Communism and Memories of the Spanish Civil War in the Writing of Jorge Semprun Stephen Hopkins Chapter 12: Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Recent Novels by Dulce Chacon and Angeles Caso Sarah Leggott Chapter 13: Dangers and Insights - 'Spain 1937' and the Aesthetic Experience Edward Quipp Chapter 14: Inspired Neglect? Three Fascist Artists of the Spanish Civil War Rob Stradling Chapter 15: A New Reality: Anarchism and Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Spain Sharif Gemie