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TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Volvemos a empezar'
T2 - Return Journeys of the Spanish Maquis
AU - Camino, Mercedes
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Isolated from international events and from the gaze of the world prior to 1945, the end of the global conflict would impel numerous maquis fighters, many of them former members of the French Resistance, on a ‘return journey’ to continue, in their homeland, the struggle against tyranny. This article assesses the representation of the maquis in Spanish film from the 1950s, by which historical moment their most prominent figures, like Vitini and García Granda, had been captured and executed and the maquis had all but disappeared, to the early years of the twenty-first century and the film El laberinto del fauno. Therein, maquis appear as common criminals (bandoleros), as social outcasts who can only be cleansed through suffering, or, in the final years of the Franco regime and the Transition, as a means to prompting a democratic conscience and restoring the collective memory of the Republican resistance.
AB - Isolated from international events and from the gaze of the world prior to 1945, the end of the global conflict would impel numerous maquis fighters, many of them former members of the French Resistance, on a ‘return journey’ to continue, in their homeland, the struggle against tyranny. This article assesses the representation of the maquis in Spanish film from the 1950s, by which historical moment their most prominent figures, like Vitini and García Granda, had been captured and executed and the maquis had all but disappeared, to the early years of the twenty-first century and the film El laberinto del fauno. Therein, maquis appear as common criminals (bandoleros), as social outcasts who can only be cleansed through suffering, or, in the final years of the Franco regime and the Transition, as a means to prompting a democratic conscience and restoring the collective memory of the Republican resistance.
U2 - 10.1080/13260219.2011.579883
DO - 10.1080/13260219.2011.579883
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 27
EP - 39
JO - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
SN - 1470-1847
IS - 1
ER -