Non-Fictional Interwar Narratives by English Writers by Barbara PUSCHMANN-NALENZ

“…George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia (1938) about the Spanish Civil War and the end of the 1930s connects his personal report about a war with his criticism of the conservative British establishment. …”
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L'œuvre d'art en tant que témoignage: les artistes confrontés à la guerre by Dolores Fernández Martínez

“…Undoubtedly this is an interesting subject nowadays, with the ongoing debate about historical memory that is tacking place in Spain and in some other European countries, and the new young artists that make the Spanish civil war or Franco’s regime their subject without having lived them…”
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El enredo de Carmen y el primer turismo en España (1830-1875) by Manuel Santirso

“…Accounts of foreign travellers in Spain proliferated after the Carlist civil war of 1833-1840, but they did not trigger the influx of a minority of travellers to the country by themselves. …”
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La prensa anarquista española en Francia durante la reunificación de la CNT (1960-1965) y su repercusión en las relaciones bilaterales Francia-España by Miguel Morán Pallarés

“…After the end of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish anarchists were forced into exile, clandestinity and repression. …”
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Un estudiante en la Residencia DYA. Cartas de Emiliano Amann a su familia (1935-1936) / A Student of the Residence DYA. Letters of Emiliano Amann to his family (1935-1936) by José Carlos Martín de la Hoz, Josemaría Revuelta Somalo

“…The letters are preceded by an extense introduction, which consists in a brief of its content, and it also gives notice of the situation of the country during those months previous to the beginning of the Civil War.…”
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De la guerre civile comme vecteur d’émancipation féminine : l’exemple des aristocrates frondeuses (France, 1648-1653) by Sophie Vergnes

“…At the same time, the Frondeuses from the aristocracy used the discourse in defence of women that had spread among society circles in the 1640s to take part in the civil war. It helped them to justify their military and political interventions despite their supposed “weakness”. …”
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“God Damn This War”: Virginia Woolf's Struggle for Peace between the Wars by Velid BEGANOVIĆ

“…This paper analyses Virginia Woolf's non-fiction and fiction writings in the years surrounding three wars which had a direct impact on her life: the First World War which shaped her generation and made her question the sanity of the society that went on living as if millions had not perished in vain, the Spanish Civil War to which she lost her nephew Julian Bell and which would become one of the driving forces for her book-length anti-war essay Three Guineas (1938), all the way to the Second World War that would eventually play a significant role in her ending her life. …”
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The National Liberation Army, Peacebuilding and its Sustainability in Colombia by Onur Ağkaya

“…The Colombian civil war has been going on for 60 years. Currently, one of the key warring factions is the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN - National Liberation Army), recognized as the oldest active guerrilla organization in Latin America. …”
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“Conmemoracciones” : Memoria y Memorialización de los Niños Vascos Refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en el Reino Unido by Susana Sabín Fernández

“…In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, more than 3,800 boys and girls were evacuated from the port of Santurzi in Vizcaya, and taken to Southampton in the UK: about 450 would stay permanently. …”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…The series questions diverse constitutive elements of the mythology of the West, as it undermines the supposed virtues of the pioneering local communities as well as those asserted by the conquest of the West in its final stage after the Civil War. In a more or less coded and allusive way, the politics of the series are mainly geared towards political, diplomatic, and economic progress. …”
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Dans le regard de l’Autre : la France et les Français vus d’Angleterre, 1640-1660 by Charles GIRY-DELOISON

“…In mid-XVIIth Century England, the unparalleled rise of the press and the near concomitance of the English Civil War and the French Fronde, incited the English to look at and observe France and the French. …”
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Hafız Esad’ın Kararları: Olasılık Teorisi Bağlamında Bir İnceleme by Dilek CANYURT

“…After his death, the Baath regime continues with his son Bashar Assad in Syria, despite the Civil War environment. Hafez Assad’s ability to be this strong is owing to the decisions he made both in his personal life and in his political life Assad’s strategic decisions determined the future of Syria as well. …”
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Srbija na istorijskoj prekretnici 1944: slom monarhista i pobeda komunističkih snaga by Nemanja Dević

“…The Allies’ decision to support the communist side influenced the outcome of the years-long civil war and enabled the communists to take over the state. …”
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Une vision sexuée de l’Histoire contemporaine espagnole à travers deux œuvres d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, El arte de volar et El ala rota by Vanessa Auroy

“…Las existencias de Petra y Antonio ponen de realce los actos, las palabras y los silencios de millones de españolas y españoles que vivieron y sufrieron la contienda y sus consecuencias.This paper will study how, through the biographical comic books dedicated to his mother and his father, Antonio Altarriba gives us a gender-specific view of life during the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. Petra and Antonio’s lives expose the acts, words and silences of millions of Spaniards, women and men, caught in the conflict and its consequences.…”
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Drifting as Consolation in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost by Judith MISRAHI-BARAK

“…Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost deals with the exhumation and identification of bones in the context of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Sent by a human rights group to investigate mass burials, Sri Lankan-born and North American-educated Anil Tissera returns to her native island as a forensic anthropologist after 15 years away. …”
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La revista infantil Pelayos: de la Guerra Civil Española a la «nueva época», ¿la existencia de un neocarlismo? by Zoé Stibbe

“…Eighty-three years after the disappearance of the Carlist children's magazine Pelayos (1936-1938), born just a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, it is reborn. Same title, same aesthetic, same ideology: nothing has changed, except Spain. …”
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Décrire la ville, écrire le patrimoine by Jean-Claude David

“…On the other hand, the populations of the historical and unincorporated neighbourhoods suffering in the violence of the civil war are precisely those heirs of traditional society for whom the memory of lifestyles and routine practices form a basis for heritage and confirm the written narratives of the ancient cities?…”
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THE SUNNI-SHI'ITE RIVALRY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST by A. A. Kuznetsov

“…To the author's mind this aggression and further empowerment of the Shi'ite majority reduced to the civil war in Iraq and exacerbation of the sectarian conflict. …”
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“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Analyzing Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Captain America: Civil War (all released in 2016) in terms of genre, narrative as well as characters and their symbolic implications, the article shows how the films comment in ambiguous, even contradictory ways on the current terrain of justice. …”
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D’Alger à Damas, des auteurs en mal d’archives ? by Ines Horchani

“…For some, the colonial past is so repressed that it becomes explosive; for others, this past is simply unexplored without being obsessional; yet for others, the colonial past seems overshadowed by more recent events, such as civil war. In any case, marks from the colonial past are tangible and can resemble black holes, scars, rifts, or stratum… We will show that these authors from an Arab world, not yet completely restored from colonization, make quite variable usage of real archives (academic or non-academic) and also resort to the creation of imaginary archives. …”
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