Crisis y añoranza del Imperio durante el franquismo: la presión de la memoria

Abstract

The Spanish presence as a colony potence was no longer important at the beginning of the XIX century, when its American territories became independent. Nevertheless it was definetively relegated after 98 due to the loss of Cuba and Filipinas. The next generations kept in their minds different attitudes toward the impact of these events. The historiography created by the second civil war winners (1936-1939) contributed of that imperial past, as it’s been stated widely in the literature published during the post-war, mainly by the National Editor. All these issues are studied in the first part of the present paper. A sample based on two sources is in the second part: the memoirs written by the intelectuals, where their memories of the Cuba and Filipinas war are collected, and the life stories (testimonies) recorded to members of the families of someones who took part of the colonial conflict, whose ages fluctuates between ninety and forty years old.