El sitio del Alcázar de Toledo en la historiografía (pro)franquista: un mito construido entre crónica y leyenda

Authors

Daniela Aronica Universidad de Barcelona

Keywords:

20th century historiography, Spanish Civil War, Francoism, Collective memory, Hispanidad

Abstract

The siege of Alcázar de Toledo in (pro)Francoist historiography: a myth built between chronicle and legend

The myth of the siege of the Alcázar de Toledo, as (pro)Francoist historiography has created it from the first chronicles to the present, has its roots in a long autochthonous tradition that goes back to Numancia and consolidates itself throughout the centuries as an archetype closely linked to the collective memory of the Spanish society. Hence, Franco early oriented its construction -in an authoritarian and fallacious sense- towards those segments of the population sensitive to those slogans with which also the military coup d’état had been justified, thus achieving the necessary consensus for his progressive consolidation in power as the head of the New State.

Author Biography

Daniela Aronica, Universidad de Barcelona

Daniela Aronica is a journalist, editor and professor at the University of Barcelona. She works as a manager of cultural projects in Spain and directs the Center for Studies on Italian Cinema (Barcelona). Among her publications, Pedro Almodóvar (2007), El neorrealismo italiano (2004), La Guerra Civil Española en la propaganda fascista. Noticiarios y documentales italianos 1936-1943 (2017) and, as author, El Quijote secondo Scaparro tra melanconia, solitudini e carnevale (2014). In 2006 he received the Honors of Merit of the Italian Republic with the rank of Knight.