Panel III: “The language of memory: Obsolescence, Testimony, and Oral History”

This talk examines filmed testimonies of survivors of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship; and offers a critique of some of the concepts commonly used to interpret the discourse of memory, the frameworks of analysis, victimology, the discourse of human rights, the notion of objective history, and the metaphors of injury. As we will see, the scholarly approaches created by Holocaust, which have come to dominate memory studies as a whole, are insufficient for addressing Spanish testimonies