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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 11/04
La batalla de la educación: Historical Memory in Josefina Aldecoa's Trilogy
Sara Brenneis
March 2004
University of California, Berkeley
Center for German and European Studies
Abstract
Josefina Aldecoa intertwines history, collective memory and individual testimony in her historical memory trilogy: Historia de una maestra, Mujeres de negro and La fuerza del destino. In the series, Gabriela and her daughter Juana navigate through the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish postwar and exile, and Spain after the death of Franco. Through the central theme of education, Aldecoa is able to express her own personal experiences of contemporary Spain alongside a generation's collective experiences. In this way, individual testimony and collective memory are fused through representations of education in Aldecoa's trilogy.
