Digithum
Volume 2017, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 1-10

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the broken memories of the Spanish exiles of 1939 in Mexico: A seminal concept for the Sociology of the past [Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez i les “memorias rotas” dels exiliats Espanyols de 1939 a Mèxic. Un concepte seminal per a la sociologia del passat] [Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y las memorias rotas de los exiliados Españoles de 1939 en México: Un concepto seminal para la Sociología del pasado] (Article) (Open Access)

Moya López L.A.*
  • a Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Departamento de Sociología, Avenida San Pablo #180, Colonia Reynosa Tamaulipas, Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, C.P.02200, Mexico

Abstract

To mark the occasion of the centenary celebrations for Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez’s birth, a series of tributes were held in Mexico in 2015 to honor both his figure and legacy. This paper aims to analyze the concept of broken memory from the Spanish philosopher through different stages; first, as a memory of witness and victim, and years later as an effect of historical, political and vital discontinuity amid the experience of exile and the lack of memory in successive generations. From this seminal concept, we propose that the absent, forgotten, relegated and excluded memories which are implicit in broken memories have gained presence through various other devices intended to safeguard and use the past: commemoration and post-memory. © 2017, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Spanish exile memory Conmemoration Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez Post-memory History

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027300010&doi=10.7238%2fd.v0i20.3093&partnerID=40&md5=48cc48738684d0ecd60deb1400775789
DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i20.3093
ISSN: 15752275
Original Language: Spanish