| Series |
Anthropological horizons
Anthropological horizons.
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| Contents |
Literacy in Later Life -- Nostalgia for Pueblos Past -- Return Migration on Stage -- History at the Museum -- Search Terms and Sound Bites. |
| Abstract |
"Forgetting Spain's civil war (1936-9) and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Franco's death in 1975. Since the early 2000s, however, public discussion of historical memory has awakened efforts to remember this past through the personal testimonies of Spaniards who experienced it firsthand. Untold Stories expands accounts of twentieth-century Spain by presenting an ethnography of an ignored population: the impoverished men and women who fled Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s, participating in a wave of labour migration to northern Europe. Now in their eighties, they were born around the time of the civil war and came of age during its repressive aftermath before leaving Spain as young adults. The book features a community of such Spaniards, who gather regularly at a senior centre on the outskirts of Paris. Drawing on concepts from linguistic anthropology, David Divita analyses conversational encounters recorded among the seniors to demonstrate how a turbulent past shape mundane moments of social interaction in the present. Documenting what is said as well as what is not, Divita reveals through detailed textual analysis how silence can pervade the creation of social meanings--such as belonging, authority, and legitimacy. Untold Stories illuminates the impact of a harrowing historical period on some of Spain's most marginal citizens in the early years of the dictatorship."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Divita, David. Untold stories. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024 1487554303 9781487554309 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781487554293 |
| ISBN | 9781487554279 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1487554273 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 148755429X (paper) |
