Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at University College Dublin.Catherine O’Leary is Lecturer in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

• Contents: Alison Ribeiro de Menezes/Catherine O’Leary: Preface – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Introduction: Cultural Memory and the Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain – Mark Sabine: Refitting the Lexicon of Resistance: Saramago, Symbolism and Dictatorship – Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses: Jaime Nogueira Pinto’s Portrait of Salazar: A New Departure? – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Cultural Memory and Intergenerational Transfer: The Case of Inês Pedrosa’s Nas Tuas Mãos – Isabel Moutinho: Fighting Oblivion: Persistence of Colonial War Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Memories of Portugal’s Angolan War: Os Cus de Judas and D’Este Viver Aqui Neste Papel Descripto by António Lobo Antunes – Susana Bayó Belenguer: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as Franco – Catherine O’Leary: Memory and Restoration: Jerónimo López Mozo’s El arquitecto y el relojero – Lorraine Ryan: When the Personal is Political: The Formation of a Republican Mnemonic Community in Alfons Cevera’s La noche inmóvil – Mercedes de Grado: Eugenics and Annihilation in Francoist Women’s Prisons: Memory and Testimony in La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón – María Cinta Ramblado-Minero: Women and the Transmission of the Republican Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Cinema – Gabrielle Carty: A Cinematic Hybrid: El laberinto del fauno and Film Representations of the Spanish Civil War.