Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America (repost)
Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America By Peter Glazer
Publisher: University of Rochester Press 2005 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1580461867 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: University of Rochester Press 2005 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1580461867 | PDF | 3 MB
Nostalgia can serve as a vital tool in the emotional reconstitution and preservation of suppressed histories, rather than sentimentally privileging the past at the expense of present concerns and limiting a culture's progressive potential. Between 1936 and 1938, responding to a military coup in Spain led by Francisco Franco with the support of both Hitler and Mussolini, over 2700 US anti-fascists joined 30,000 volunteers from around the world to form the International Brigade. They came together to defend the democratically elected Spanish government against this early manifestation of the fascist Axis.