The deputy for Culture and Sports of the Diputación de Cáceres, Fernando Grande Cano, presented this Tuesday, within the framework of the Book Fair of the capital of Cáceres, number 91 of the Alcántara Magazine, the third number of the sixth period of this publication that was born 76 years ago and is currently directed by Fernando Ayala, who has accompanied the deputy in the presentation.
The deputy expressed his pride in presenting a new number of what he considers “a benchmark for researchers and scholars, as it shows that throughout its long existence it has been a source of information and consultation, one of the most consulted publications of our archive and library ”.
In addition, he wanted to encourage researchers and scholars “to see in this magazine a tool to disseminate their knowledge and share it with Extremadura society.” In this sense, the director of the magazine recalled that, “not in vain it is the flagship publication of the Autonomous Community in terms of historical and literary studies.”
The number 91
In this issue, in the General Studies section, Dr. Javier García Carrero approaches Historical Memory through the study entitled “Paying for the faults of the other. Violence against republican women. The case of Carmen Rebolledo López ”. In it, he goes to the number of Spanish women who paid for the alleged republican faults of their parents, brothers or husbands, as was the case of the wife of the last mayor of the socialist corporation of the then Arroyo del Puerco.
Another trip to which this General Studies section invites is the one proposed by Jonás Sánchez Pedrero, who has followed in the footsteps of names like Benito Pérez Galdós, Buñuel, Lorca or Cela through Baños de Montemayor, and also Alange, in the case of Galdós.
Another route is that of “an episode that drew attention to Cáceres at the end of the 19th century”, as indicated by the director of the magazine, referring to the death and funeral of General Margallo. Juan de la Cruz Gutiérrez, collects the last moments of the general before falling mortally wounded by the Berber bullets in Melilla, recovering fragments of the national press of that time and “detailing the solemnity of the funeral services celebrated in the church of Santa María in Cáceres. ”.
On the literary pages, this issue features an essay by Yakoub Abibi on Dominican authors of the 1960s; a study carried out by José Luis Rodríguez Plasencia on the children’s song “Let it rain, let it rain”, or the publication of the winning micro-stories of the “El Brocense” awards, in its 2020 edition, and which is convened every year by the Cáceres Provincial Council. “It is an opportunity – points out Ayala – to publicize the creative possibilities of adolescents who are starting in the exciting world of writing.”
Also included, as usual, are book reviews, in this case, the work “Juan Giral Pereira. His life and his time in 20th century Spain ”, by Julián Chaves; “The diogenes syndrome”, by Juan Ramón Santos, or the studies by José Antonio Ramos Rubio “The palace of the Chaves de Trujillo, symbol of national unity” and “Medieval sculpture in Extremadura: art, religious and anthropological survivals. The Marian representations, the crucified and the saints ”.
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