Przekaz międzypokoleniowy. Pamięć o antyfrankistowskim komunistycznym ruchu oporu
Intergenerational Transfer: Remembering the Antifrancoist Communist Resistance Movement

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the formation of generational consciousness in two generations of women in an act of recovering memory. The return to the forgotten history of the opposition constitutes the generational consciousness of the women who participated in those events. At the same time, for modern women an interest in their fate represents a search for tradition outside the predominantly male narrative of mainstream historiography. Today, historical novels are the literary manifestation of this phenomenon in Spain. Calderón Puerta examines narrative strategies associated with the recovery and redefinition of this kind of generational memory. Based on two concrete examples, she shows how women writers of the ‘second generation’ try to recover the memory of the Communists’ struggle against the Francoism after the Spanish Civil War. As the generation of mothers and grandmothers rebuilds their own story, it runs parallel with today’s story about them, in which the generation of daughters and granddaughters tackles their tradition and identity.

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