Children and War: Childhood Memories and Spanish Civil War Studies

About This Novel

This book connects children, childhood memories and the Spanish Civil War, and proposes a new concept "Franco's children". It constructs and analyzes this concept through representative literary, film and television works from four key historical periods in Spain in the second half of the 20th century. Within the dual theoretical framework of childhood studies and historical memory studies, "Franco Children" has two directions: first, it means that the protagonists in literary and artistic works are all children, and experienced the Spanish Civil War and post-war Francoism; second, it means that the creators of the works themselves have experienced the same civil war and post-war repression as the protagonists of the works. They choose to review their childhood in the form of artistic works at important junctures in history, reshape the national past by reconstructing childhood during the war, and influence the process of social development. This book subverts the traditional view since the late 18th century romanticism that "children are passive and weak and need protection" and outlines an active and powerful group of "Franco children". At the juncture of the increasingly deepening globalization in the 21st century, connecting Spain's "Franco Children" with the brave, fearless and redeeming children in the world literary tradition not only gives children the ability to repair war wounds, but also points to the development trend of the internationalization of Spanish local culture.

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