Public movements and private memories silences and speeches of the Spanish Civil War

Abstract

This article reflects upon the process of "recuperation of the historical memory" of the II Republic and the Spanish Civil War, in the construction of a contra-hegemonic memory of the dictatorship, and the preservation of the "apolitical speech" on the part of the individuals oppressed during the Civil War and the Franquist regime. In the way to understand the problematic between the public movements of the associations, and the individuals' private memories, we establish a diachronic perspective between past and present, choosing as case study the events occurred in Oliva de la Frontera, and its social representations in the ethnographic present.