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Written in Red:

The Communist Memoir in Spain

ISBN-13: 9780252034695
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Gina Herrmann
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Local release date: 13/09/2010
Format: Hardback 272 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: European history [HBJD]

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Google Preview: In this book, Gina Herrmann looks at the memoirs of six Spanish Communist writers to reveal the fascinating and often painful evolution of their politics from the beginning of the war through their long years of exile. While Spanish Communist authors initially shaped their identities and autobiographies along the lines of Soviet models, Herrmann shows how, with the recognition of Stalinism's betrayal of the Communist ideal, the writers increasingly came to experience those models as straitjackets unfit to contain the stories of their rich and difficult lives. The six writers studied--Dolores Ibárruri, María Teresa Léon, Rafael Alberti, Jorge Semprún, and Teresa and Tomás Pàmies--devoted their lives to the cause of the revolution. Though they have told their separate stories, this book is the first to gather, compare, and interpret them within their historical and intellectual context and from a comparative perspective that takes into account recent developments in Soviet studies.; Acknowledgements; Preface: Written in Red; Introduction: The Subject of Communist Autobiography; 1 Dolores Ibarruri and the Mothering of the Party; 2 The Road to Consciousness: Youth and Conversion; 3 The War in Spain; 4 Exile and Left Melancholia: Maria Teresa Leon and Rafael Alberti; 5 Between Devotion and Disillusion: Jorge Semprun, Teresa Pamies and the Recovery of Communist Memory; Bibliography; Index; ''Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Written in Red brings a sophisticated theoretical grounding and broad intellectual and historical contextualization to the analysis of the autobiographical writings of six major Spanish writers and public figures of the Civil War and postwar periods. It promotes a long overdue reckoning of the role of Spain and the Spanish left in one of the central historical dramas of the 20th century: the rise and fall of communist ideology and practice across Europe and Asia.'' Kathleen Vernon, editor of The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts; Google Preview content

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