La memoria de los Verdugos de 1936 y la cultura de impuni(bili)dad en la democracia posfranquista

Translated title of the contribution: The memory of the perpetrators from 1936 and the culture of impuni(bili)ty in post-Francoist democracy

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Abstract

Este texto se interesa por los efectos de la producción académica sobre la construcción social del victimario, y se centra en el caso de los victimarios de la guerra española de 1936 y su estatus en la cultura de la democracia posfranquista. Escoge dos obras de especialistas dirigidas al público amplio y rastrea a partir de ellas cómo el tratamiento de los victimarios se encuentra predefinido por un marco que exonera de partida a determinados posibles perpetradores al figurar en la nómina de intelectuales y artistas que conforman el canon cultural del siglo XX. El enfoque alternativo que propone consiste en combinar una hermenéutica de los testimonios de posibles perpetradores con otras fuentes documentales, y escoge como ejemplo el de Dionisio Ridruejo, figura que epitomiza el cambio de identidad en contra del franquismo pero a partir de una profunda implicación en la maquinaria de represión del régimen de Franco, actividad que reclama ser integrada para un estudio completo de la identidad del personaje.

This text deals with the effects of scholarly research over the social construction of the perpetrator, reflecting from the case of the Spanish civil war and the status of perpetrators in postFrancoist democracy. By choosing two scholarly essays for the broad public, it how the issue of perpetrators is predefined by a framework that disclaims possible perpetrators due to their recognition as intellectuals and artists shaping the cultural canon of the 20th century. The alternative approach it proposes consists in combining a hermeneutics of the testimonies by possible perpetrators with other documentary sources, and chooses those offered by Dionisio Ridruejo, a major example of identity change against Francoism but departing from a deep implication in the repressive machinery of Franco ́s regime which demands being integrated into a full study of Ridruejo ́s identity.
Translated title of the contributionThe memory of the perpetrators from 1936 and the culture of impuni(bili)ty in post-Francoist democracy
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)19-46
Number of pages27
JournalKAMCHATKA-REVISTA DE ANALISIS CULTURAL
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • perpetrators
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Franco's regime (Francoism)
  • memory
  • testimonies
  • repression
  • cultural canon
  • post-Francoist democracy
  • Dionisio Ridruejo
  • Ramon J. Sender
  • Ramon Sender Barayon

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