In December 2012 I organized at the UCF a Giornata di Studio (one-day workshop) on “Explorations of Everyday Life.” A selection of the papers delivered at that meeting is the core of this special section in AJHCS. “Explorations of Everyday Life” puts together a group of scholars that are interested in addressing everyday life from very different perspectives. How is the everyday experienced within a Catalan/Spanish context? Are there particular experiences that achieve a specific and unique representation or theoretical response in art, film or literature? Other research questions included: how and to what extent issues of identity, space, historical memory and immigration, have affected everyday life in Spain, and how have been represented in literature and film. The focus was on Spanish/Catalan culture, but the long-range goal was that our findings would be applicable to other European countries. The main reason to organize such a meeting was the fact that there have been very few examinations of this kind in an Iberian setting. Rafael Abella’s La vida cotidiana bajo el régimen de Franco (Everyday life in Spain under the Franco regime) (1985), or Sánchez Vidal’s Sol y sombra. De cómo los españoles se apearon de las mayúsculas de la historia dotándose de vida cotidiana (Sun and shadow. How Spaniards got out of history with capital h and endowed themselves with daily life) (1990) are two of the few examples available, though none of them makes a consistent approach to define from a theoretical perspective what everyday life is. Both books tackle the issue in a very different way. The latter tries to solve the riddle of several coincidences such as the simultaneous arrival in Spain of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s record and the use of credit cards. Sánchez Vidal is willing to emphasize the consequences brought about by these and other minor events, always giving them preference over the great historical event, the most seemingly nondescript fact, with the aim of reaching a convincing interpretive synthesis of the past.

Representing Everyday Life. Special section: Explorations of Everyday Life

BOU MAQUEDA, Enric
2015-01-01

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In December 2012 I organized at the UCF a Giornata di Studio (one-day workshop) on “Explorations of Everyday Life.” A selection of the papers delivered at that meeting is the core of this special section in AJHCS. “Explorations of Everyday Life” puts together a group of scholars that are interested in addressing everyday life from very different perspectives. How is the everyday experienced within a Catalan/Spanish context? Are there particular experiences that achieve a specific and unique representation or theoretical response in art, film or literature? Other research questions included: how and to what extent issues of identity, space, historical memory and immigration, have affected everyday life in Spain, and how have been represented in literature and film. The focus was on Spanish/Catalan culture, but the long-range goal was that our findings would be applicable to other European countries. The main reason to organize such a meeting was the fact that there have been very few examinations of this kind in an Iberian setting. Rafael Abella’s La vida cotidiana bajo el régimen de Franco (Everyday life in Spain under the Franco regime) (1985), or Sánchez Vidal’s Sol y sombra. De cómo los españoles se apearon de las mayúsculas de la historia dotándose de vida cotidiana (Sun and shadow. How Spaniards got out of history with capital h and endowed themselves with daily life) (1990) are two of the few examples available, though none of them makes a consistent approach to define from a theoretical perspective what everyday life is. Both books tackle the issue in a very different way. The latter tries to solve the riddle of several coincidences such as the simultaneous arrival in Spain of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s record and the use of credit cards. Sánchez Vidal is willing to emphasize the consequences brought about by these and other minor events, always giving them preference over the great historical event, the most seemingly nondescript fact, with the aim of reaching a convincing interpretive synthesis of the past.
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