Emerging trends in reassessing translation, conflict, and memory

New Approaches on Translation, Conflict, and Memory: Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship is a collection of essays that endeavours to establish a new dialogue between translation, conflict, and memory studies. Focusing on cultural representations of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship, it explores the significance and the effect of translation within Spain and beyond. Drawing on fictional and non-fictional texts, reports from war zones, and audiovisual productions, the contributors to this volume examine the scope of translation in transmitting the conflict and the dictatorship from a contemporary perspective. Narratives produced during and after the Civil War and the dictatorship both in Spain and abroad have led to new debates arising from the reassessment of a conflict that continues to resonate

Bad memory : the Franco effect in Spanish culture since 1936

Bad Memory reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. Treglown looks at what’s actually there—monuments, paintings, public works, novels, movies, computer games—and considers, in a captivating and open-minded narrative, the totality of what it shows. The result is a much-needed re-examination of a history we only thought we knew

John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satire against Mankind

Erectile dysfunction provided Rochester with material for mock-tirades; disappointment takes a less physiological ground and a more analytic tone, as if in resignation to inevitability, when he reflects in a letter to his wife on ‘soe greate a disproportion t'wixt our desires & what [is] ordained to content them’. His most celebrated poem, his Satire against Mankind, presses to its limits this existential turn against the claims of humanism, and offers no remedy