Transnational Soldiers vs Resistance National Accounts: The Legend of la Nueve and the Spanish Liberation of Paris

Gaspar Celaya, Diego (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The reconstruction of the History of the Resistance in France, the memories of former combatants and their relatives, and an important culture industry have all been developed within a national context, thereby hiding the transnational character of this resistance over the years. This paper shows first how the French State came to Frenchify this Resistance and, decades later, civil society and that culture industry tried to Spanishise the Liberation of Paris through the construction of the legend of la Nueve. With this in mind, the current paper focuses mainly on a historical and memorial analysis of the French infantry company la Nueve, through the recollections and experiences of numerous transnational soldiers, in order to stress the a la carte reconstruction of its history, and highlighting the particular role played by the French-Spanish collective memory over the last twenty years.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1177/09683445211066952

Año: 2022

Publicado en: WAR IN HISTORY 29, 4 (2022), 805-823
ISSN: 0968-3445

Factor impacto JCR: 0.3 (2022)

Categ. JCR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS rank: 95 / 96 = 0.99 (2022) - Q4 - T3
Categ. JCR: HISTORY rank: 77 / 100 = 0.77 (2022) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.3 - Arts and Humanities (Q3) - Social Sciences (Q4)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.106 - History (Q3) - Cultural Studies (Q4)

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Historia Contemporánea (Dpto. Historia)