SPA 356 - Seminar

Spring 2024
Spanish Culture during Francoism

Instructor
Acosta

This course seeks to offer a panoramic view of Spanish culture and society during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). The course will focus mainly on cultural productions (literature, film, music, television, etc.) as representations of the historical, social, political and economic experiences that were lived in Spain during that period. The different cultural productions that we will study will consist of both those produced during the Franco regime, and those created in contemporary times. Some of the issues we will focus on are gender roles, the years of famine, international isolation and autarky, repression and exile, the tourist boom, censorship and Franco’s ideology, etc. One of the central objectives of the course is for students to learn about Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco through the analysis of various cultural productions to establish the connections between culture, history and daily life. Finally, we will study what are the repercussions of the almost 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship today and the controversial process of historical / collective memory in Spain. Course conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 271 or SPA 272 or Permission of the instructor