The Spanish Civil War Studies group is for anyone interested in the history and culture surrounding the conflict, to share and discuss resources, announce events, or plan collaborations related to the study of the Spanish Civil War / Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939).
About the profile image: Plan of the bomb falls around the Calgografia Nacional, Madrid during the Spanish Civil War; issued with the seventh edition of Goya’s ‘Los Desastres de la Guerra’, 1937 Photogravure(?) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Trustees of the British Museum.
About the cover image: Goya, Plate 26 from ‘The Disasters of War’ (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘One can’t look.’ (No se puede mirar.) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361851
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Luis de Orueta deposited CAPRICHO DE LO TRIVIAL in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoEl autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited La Transición Española. Las fuerzas que cambian la Historia son las mismas que cambian el corazón del hombre in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoEspañoles, Franco ha muerto. Con estas palabras se abría paso a uno de los momentos más afortunados de la Historia de España: la Transición a la democracia. Aunque el proceso de democratización española tuviera sus deficiencias y carencias, que hoy se hacen evidentes en la situación de crisis actual; podemos seguir mirando esa Transición como un…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoLibertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThanks for your kind words about the PMLA piece, Kathryn! Congrats on your fellowship–the description on the faculty fellows page is very intriguing. I’d love to hear more about your project, so please do get in touch!
Apologies for the late reply–somehow I missed the notification for it. And, yes, I’d love to hear what others have been…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoHi Anne!
Thanks for posting- your piece in the PMLA is wonderful, congrats!
I received a Syracuse University Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2020 to conduct research at the ALBA archives and SU special collections on Salaria Kea- I’m very excited and will certainly be in touch to pick your brain…ok? I would love to hear what…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoHello all! I’ve been remiss in my role as group admin here. What is new? Has anyone published anything SCW-related in the past year or so? Is anyone reading anything interesting?
(I was prompted by this HC Summer Refresh Workshop to post. If anyone would like to join me as a group admin, let me know! I’d love to see more discussion here.)…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAmazing! Didn’t hear about it. On the El País article, the photo of a doctor treating a man: I’m pretty sure that’s Dr. Reginald Saxton, who developed a mobile infrastructure for blood transfusion in the SCW. We have his papers in the Marx Memorial Library, including a diary he kept–more like a block for note taking, with many illegible bits but…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoHello! I’m Mariana, based in London, and since last October I’ve been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I’ve been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoHello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?
That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAlso here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoI’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I’d love to hear what people are working on.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoCongratulations! That’s fantastic news.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am happy to announce that my book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War is now available in paperback.
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Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI’m interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I’m reading Bécquer Seguín’s Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books:
To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoHi Anne- I’m still gathering information and reading about Kea. Nothing in the works yet. I look forward to seeing the anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism! sounds great.
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoI recently listened to the International Communism and the Spanish Civil War episode of @sguillory‘s Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast, featuring @lkirschenb! It was excellent–I highly recommend it: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/07/07/international-communism-and-the-spanish-civil-war/
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Thanks, Anne! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoOh, that’s so great to hear! Are you writing about Kea? I’m finalizing a chapter for an anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism about black women’s life writing and the Spanish Civil War that discusses the ambulance fundraising tour around the south & midwest of the US that Kea & Thyra Edwards undertook in 1938 (and Edwards’s scrapbook…[Read more]
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