Españoles en Mauthausen. Representaciones de un campo de concentración nazi, 1940-2018.
Marcial Pons Historia, 2024.
This updated edition of Spaniards in Mauthausen has been expertly translated into Spanish by Jaime Fatás-Cabeza. The Spanish edition of Españoles en Mauthausen. Representaciones de un campo de concentración nazi, 1940-2018, a groundbreaking cultural study of Spaniards deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen during the Second World War, contains additional material and a new afterword by the author.
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Yo he estado en Mauthausen por Carlos Rodríguez del Risco: Edición Crítica.
Editorial UCA, 2024.
Yo he estado en Mauthausen por Carlos Rodríguez del Risco: Edición crítica exposes the crucial and controversial role of Spain in the Second World War and the Holocaust through the captivating story of one survivor. Among the very first concentrationary texts published in Europe, Yo he estado en Mauthausen is the fascinating memoir of a young defender of the Spanish Republic who fought against the Nazis, survived five years in a Nazi concentration camp, and returned to Spain under the protection of dictator Francisco Franco. Originally published in the Falangist newspaper Arriba in 1946, Yo he estado en Mauthausen is the first time that news of the deportation of Spaniards to Nazi concentration camps reached readers in Spain. The present edition in Spanish includes an introduction, photos from the personal collection of the author’s daughter, and a thorough series of explanatory notes from the editor, Sara J. Brenneis.
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“The first written testimony about what happened in the Nazi concentration camps”
— Luisa Rodríguez Casado
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation.
Co-edited with Gina Herrmann. University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate Spain in a position of influence in the history and culture of the Second World War. Featuring essays by international experts in the fields of history, literary studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and film studies, this book clarifies historical issues within Spain while also demonstrating the impact of Spain’s involvement in the Second World War on historical memory of the Holocaust. Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust reaches beyond discipline, genre, nation, and time period to offer previously unknown evidence of Spain’s continued relevance to the Holocaust and the Second World War.
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“Encyclopedic collection…an excellent resource”
— Sean McPhail
“Important and varied contributions”
— Carmen López Alonso
“Vital introductory text”
— Matthew Kerry
“Clear, smart, and highly readable…a ground-breaking, authoritative, and expansive volume”
— Ellen Mayock
“Veritable tour de force”
— Daniela Omlor
“Highly integrated, coherent, and unusually engaging text”
— Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015.
University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theater, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, the Spaniards in Mauthausen were objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.
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“Painstaking and definitive”
— Ariel Dorfman
“Groundbreaking”
— Sebastiaan Faber
“A richly researched study”
— Andrea Hepworth
“Rigorous and well substantiated”
— Javier Sánchez Zapatero
“The first study of its kind”
— Silvia Ribelles de la Vega
“Significant scholarship”
— Wendy Perla Kurtz
“Terrific monograph”
— María Delgado
Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain.
Purdue University Press, Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures no. 60, 2014.
In Genre Fusion, Sara J. Brenneis develops a new theory to demonstrate how Spanish authors who write both historiography and fiction produce a more accurate representation of the lived experience of Spanish history. Genre Fusion includes a straightforward overview of the relationships among history, fiction, and memory in contemporary culture alongside an exploration of paired fictional and nonfictional works of Montserrat Roig, Carmen Martín Gaite, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, and Javier Marías. Through these four authors, Genre Fusion traces the transformation of a country once enveloped in a postwar silence to one currently consumed by its own history and memory.
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“A valuable and innovative addition”
— Ofelia Ferrán
“Superlative interpretive essay”
— Enrique Mallorquí-Ruscalleda
“Masterful introduction”
— Anna Hiller
“A valuable resource that offers new insight”
— William J. Nichols