Event Title
Panel III: “The language of memory: Obsolescence, Testimony, and Oral History”
Abstract
This talk examines filmed testimonies of survivors of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship; and offers a critique of some of the concepts commonly used to interpret the discourse of memory, the frameworks of analysis, victimology, the discourse of human rights, the notion of objective history, and the metaphors of injury. As we will see, the scholarly approaches created by Holocaust, which have come to dominate memory studies as a whole, are insufficient for addressing Spanish testimonies.
Presenter Bio(s)
Luis Martín-Cabrera, the Digital Archives Project, Spanish Civil War Testimonials, is an Assistant Professor of Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, San Diego. He has published extensively on contemporary Spanish film and is currently working on a collaborative project to create an audiovisual archive of testimonies of survivors of the Spanish Civil War and victims of postwar repression.
Location
Mount Holyoke College, Mary Woolley Hall, New York Room
Start Date
14-10-2011 3:45 PM
End Date
14-10-2011 4:30 PM
Panel III: “The language of memory: Obsolescence, Testimony, and Oral History”
Mount Holyoke College, Mary Woolley Hall, New York Room
This talk examines filmed testimonies of survivors of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship; and offers a critique of some of the concepts commonly used to interpret the discourse of memory, the frameworks of analysis, victimology, the discourse of human rights, the notion of objective history, and the metaphors of injury. As we will see, the scholarly approaches created by Holocaust, which have come to dominate memory studies as a whole, are insufficient for addressing Spanish testimonies.