Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 7. A place to conclude. Remembering the past -- Fascist youth -- Antiauthoritarian youth -- Carnival and transgression -- Time, space and being in public -- Imagining alternate universes -- 2. To Study is to Serve Spain -- A fascist education -- What does it mean to be a fascist? -- A national-catholic education -- Making a good Spaniard -- `That's the way Spain is' and other historical non-truths -- Heteronormativity in textbooks -- A legacy of bad education -- 3. The Revolt of the Youth -- Memory as a space of contention -- Strategy versus tactics -- Resisting false history and facts -- Institutionalized repression and censorship -- Unamuno's last lecture -- Opening political-literary space -- A dead poets society -- Funeral for a friend -- Cafes heating up -- 4. Truth, Justice and the American Way in Spain -- Tights, capes and double identities -- Forms and functions of Superman comic books -- Strange visitor from another planet -- A super woman in man's world -- Play, youth and supermanism -- The search for truth, justice and the Spanish way -- 5. The Penetration of Franco's Spain -- Apertura -- Pluralistic spaces of the pre-war years -- Coffee and democratic spaces -- Disrupting networks and traditions -- Notebooks for literary-political dialogue -- Internal battles and liberal tradition -- Tactics to create a space of discourse -- Criticism and praise for American (counter) culture -- Civil rights in Spain -- Violence or non-violence -- 6. Clashing with Fascism -- The carnivalesque in Franco's Spain -- Spain's `coming out' party -- Spanish punk, carnivalesque and the grotesque -- Reviving identity, counterpublics and community -- Networking the underground, imagining carnivalesque spaces -- What was el Rrollo? -- Libertad versus fascist youth -- Naked bodies, politics and partying in the streets -- 7. Madrid Kills Me -- (Re)defining a movement -- Subculture as myth, voyeurism and other modern-day fables -- A queer and public spectacle -- A place to conclude.
Summary:
This book explores the role of young people in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing on their urban performances of dissent, their consumption of censored literature, political-literary magazines and comic books and their involvement in a newly developed punk scene. After forty years of dictatorship, Madrid became the centre of both a young democracy and a vibrant artistic scene by the early 1980s. Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia skillfully examines how young Spaniards occupied public plazas, subverted Spanish cultural norms and undermined the authoritarian state by participating in a postmodern punk subculture that eventually grew into the 'Movida Madrilena'. In doing so, he exposes how this antiauthoritarian youth culture reflected a mixture of sexual liberation, a rejection of the ideological indoctrination of the dictatorship, a reinvention of native Iberian pluralistic traditions and a burgeoning global youth culture that connected the USA, Britain, France and Spain. By analyzing young people's everyday acts of resistance, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain offers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.
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