The allegorical and ritual experience of the Civil war in the rebel Andalusian rearguard, 1936-1939

Authors

  • FRANCISCO COBO ROMERO y TERESA MARÍA OR

Keywords:

Spanish Civil War, Francoism, Political Languages, Mythical, Thought, Social Supports, Political Mobilization, Andalusia.

Abstract

By means of the employment of such analytical instruments as the political languages and the capacity of mobilization of the idealized symbolizations, we try to carry out a new approach to the complex topic of the adherences given to the New Francoist State. Consequently, we want to explain how along the Civil war, inside the so called «nationalistic» Spain, the social groups and the partisan formations integrated about the so called «rebellious band», were distilling a whole series of theoretical and interpretive constructions. In the course of the War all of them turned out to be provided with a powerful capacity of mobilization, up to turning into vertebral elements of the ideology that legitimized the New Francoist State. To prove such hypotheses, we will focus on the analysis of the mythical idealizations of the Civil war and the «Alzamiento», and their impact on the allegorical and mythical experience of the politics on the rebel Andalusian rearguard.

Published

2008-04-25

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DOSSIER

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