Representations of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) in recent secondary school history textbooks

  1. Gloria Román Ruiz 1
  1. 1 Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Revista:
Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education

ISSN: 0030-9230

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 59

Número: 6

Páginas: 1345-1366

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education

Resumen

Based on the potential of educational materials to forge and shape the collective memory, this article analyses the representations of the Francoist Hunger Years (1939–1952) in recent history textbooks for secondary schools by a wide range of publishers. The main thesis of the paper is that while there are textbooks that provide a complex narrative of the hunger experiences, others even some of the most recent ones depict the period in an oversimplified and historiographically outdated way and fail to address various social perspectives. This article also argues that it is possible to detect the persistence of the official Francoist discourse on the years of hunger in some textbooks that continue to implicitly perpetuate the distortion and oblivion the Franco dictatorship tried to impose on the famine