RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Burying your Dead in Franco’s Spain: Thanatopolitical Power and José María Pemán’s Antigone (1946).
A1 Balaskas, Vasileios
K1 Pemán, José María (1897-1981) - Crítica e interpretación
K1 España - Historia - 1939-1975
AB Considering the Spanish political context of the period, Antigone’s myth could become an ideological offence against the regime. However, Pemán’s version emphasized the emotional aspect of the play. It was a Catholic reconfiguration of the classical myth, in which family love and divine right were displayed as the main features of a traditional society, where Christian order prevailed over civil rights. The heroine became a Christian martyr who sacrificed herself not because of the tyrant but because people hesitated to save her.Antigone’s concern about burying her brothers also reminded the audience about the right and legitimation of burial in early Francoist Spain. During a period when Franco’s detention camps and prisons systematically filled unmarked mass graves of republican adversaries and civilians, assuming the right to decide on the enemy body, another circumstance showcased the regime’s thanatopolitical power that cynically marked the dead bodies’ political life beyond the grave.
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32043
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32043
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026