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Publication Date

Summer 7-15-2024

Abstract

This dissertation explores antifascist culture in Spain during the decade of the 1930s, and the ways in which it was developed and disseminated by a host of intellectuals and activists under the Second Republic from 1931-1939. In considering parliamentary addresses, performative speech acts, election propaganda, public demonstrations, newspaper and journal articles, multi-media art, and photographs, the study demonstrates how political and cultural leaders came to define and understand “antifascism” and what they hoped to achieve by embracing this term. An antifascist culture developed amongst broad elements of the Spanish political left and center under the Second Republic, which came to define itself around the democratic Republic and the promises of its 1931 Constitution. When these were perceived to be under internal threat in 1934, a broad coalition of Spaniards mobilized to defend them, unified, however briefly, under the guise of antifascism.

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Dr. Enrique Sanabria

Second Committee Member

Dr. Melissa Bokovoy

Third Committee Member

Dr. Judy Bieber

Fourth Committee Member

Dr. Marco Briziarelli

Language

English

Keywords

antifascism, the public sphere, populism, gender, democracy, intellectuals

Document Type

Dissertation

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