Acta Hispanica

Preface

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Preface of Acta Hispanica Tomus XXX

Attracted by Chile (1973–2023)

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A brief look back half a century: on 11 September 1973, I was a 20-year-old student at the University of Szeged. My tutor, Ádám Anderle, advised me to choose the Prussian-German military influence in Chile as the topic for my future thesis. In 1977, I won the Main Prize at the National Conference of Scientific Students with my work. In the following decade, I had the opportunity to continue researching this topic in the archives of East and West Germany. I have visited Chile on three occasions. In 1999, I presented my book –El modelo militar prusiano y las Fuerzas Armadas de Chile, 1885-1945– in the Andean country. The work was a real novelty for Chileans. In 2000, I travelled with the rector of the University of Pécs at the time to sign a bilateral agreement with three Chilean universities, which is still in force today. On my third trip, I was able to resume my scientific research and, as a result, in 2003 I defended my doctoral thesis and obtained the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc).

Connections Across the Iron Curtain

2025-07-08T21:32:16+02:00

On 13 January 1987, Colombia’s former Minister of Justice, Enrique Parejo González, then Ambassador to Hungary, was shot in Budapest. The fact that the assassination attempt could take place in a socialist country shows that the iron curtain was no longer impenetrable. Growing international links indicate that interactions no longer followed the expected norms of bipolarity in the second half of the 1980s, implying the weakening of such global constellation. By investigating Hungarian-Colombian ties, and more broadly East-South relations (Socialist camp and Global South), this essay contributes to the field of New Cold War Studies. The work is based on a thorough analysis of archival material and contemporary press. The main sources are preserved in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security Services and the National Archives of Hungary.

As the Anarchists Saw It

2025-01-22T18:11:00+01:00

The international repercussions of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its various press interpretations have been the subject of much research, but as yet we know almost nothing about the way in which the representatives of an ab ovo revolutionary movement such as the anarchist saw the causes, context, process and possible consequences of the Revolution. This paper reconstructs how the anarchists of the period evaluated the events in Hungary, using contemporary articles from the two most important periodicals of the Spanish exiled libertarian movement in France, the CNT in Toulouse and the Solidaridad Obrera in Paris. In doing so, it offers readings that differ from the mainstream perception, as well as novel critical observations and specific parallels, which are an important complement to the public historical understanding of the 1956 Revolution. The study also provides useful contributions to the understanding of the mid-20th century international anarchist movement's view of revolutions in general, its perception of the Soviet Union and attitudes and subsequent practices in relation to the entire Cold War conflict.

Cuban mediation in the Iraq-Iran war

2025-01-13T23:26:59+01:00

The aim of this study is to present an aspect of Cuba’s internationalist foreign policy when the island nation tried to help a third world state resolve a local conflict through mediation instead of the military support. Cuba’s role as a mediator in the 1980-1988 war between Iraq and Iran was an example of this. This form of intervention of the island nation was not unprecedented, because it had already attempted to mediate between the opposing Ethiopia and Somalia in 1977, as in the case of the border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, Cuba made a much greater effort to bring the participants to the negotiating table in the aforementioned Iraq–Iran war. But what exactly was behind this, what goals the island nation was pursuing and what efforts it made to achieve them? These are the questions what we would like to answer in this article.

Anna Furuhjelm and Russian America

2025-06-20T10:53:26+02:00

The article provides an insight into Russian America during its final period, as seen through the eyes of Anna Furuhjelm. After her wedding, she often wrote letters to her mother. She continued to do so when she was in Alaska, married to the penultimate governor of Russian America. She usually wrote about her life, but she also used the letters to introduce her mother to Russian America. Although there is little general information about Russian America, it is possible to gain an insight into Anna Furuhjelm's life. One can find news about the inhabitants, education, public health and the territory's economy.

Post-Conflict Representations in Contemporary Colombian Cinema

2025-05-05T12:46:55+02:00

This article adopts a qualitative film analysis approach to examine the narrative, aesthetic, and symbolic representations of the post-conflict period in three Colombian feature films. Cinema has played a fundamental role as a medium for representing the social dynamics that shape life in society. In the specific case of Colombia, contemporary Colombian cinema has served as a key medium for portraying the realities of the post-conflict period following the signing of the peace agreement in 2016. This study analyzes three feature films −The Animal’s Wife (2016), On the Other Side (2021), and The Fog of Peace (2020)− which address different perspectives on the post-conflict, ranging from historical memory to the challenges of reconciliation. Film analysis enabled the identification not only of the themes addressed by post-conflict cinema, but also of the formal mechanisms through which these themes are transformed into social discourse.

Spatial Turn and Socio-Political History

2025-07-07T11:29:15+02:00

After centuries in which historiography and literary narrative have assigned evident preeminence to the temporal sequence of events, marginalizing the spatial dimension, recent decades have seen a return to the centrality of space. Related to the spatial turn are both the weakening of historicity (Jameson) and a contemporary spatialist way of life (Aínsa). Based on the observation that the spatial turn refers to a heightened attention to the territorial aspect of the historical world (Schlögel), it is worth asking about the new relationship established between space and history (the time of the historical world) and what happens if “spatiality” and “historicity” are conceived together. Our proposal is to consider travel as a practice in which processes of creating a topographical space linked to historical and cultural events take place. On this basis, we propose a reflection on a set of fictional works published in Chile over the last decade: works centered on the experience of travel in which the spatial dimension explains (and relates to) historical time. The movements through the territory of the characters in the three selected novels (El brujo, by Álvaro Bisama; El tercer paraíso, by Cristian Alarcón; Piñen, by Daniela Catrileo) will serve to establish a relationship between travel (movement toward or through a territory as a subjective or collective experience) and the reworking of historical-political and/or historical-cultural traumas in spaces that function as a primordial dimension in which the relationship between human beings and the things of the world is negotiated (Gumbrecht).

Non-Hegemonic Maternities in Contemporary Catalan Theatre

2025-06-21T00:11:16+02:00

The rise of women as playwrights in the field of contemporary Catalan theatre has led to the treatment of topics that have not been addressed much until now. Motherhood is one of the most relevant. This article analyses the dramatic work of Clàudia Cedó (Banyoles, 1983) in which forms of motherhood that are not very visible are claimed: Una gossa en un descampat (2018), Mare de sucre (2021) and Els àngels no tenen fills (2021). The first is based on her own experience linked to the perinatal death of her child, and she uses lyrical mechanisms that allow us to follow the process of mourning and overcoming trauma. The other two plays focus on the right to procreation of women with functional diversity through the technique of verbatim theatre.

Two Documents on the Functioning of the Amateur Company of the Teatre del Carme in Barcelona (1824/1837)

2025-01-22T12:29:24+01:00

Until the beginning of the second third of the 19th century the monopoly of theatrical performances in favor of the Hospital of each major city remained in force. In Barcelona, during the first decades of the 1800s, several independent or amateur theatres emerged, especially after the breakdown of the monopoly that took plake in the year 1834. The work makes known two internal regulations of two of these amateur companies which make it possible to know the members who made them up, the internal organization, the discipline by which they were governed, some of the resources they had or to appreciate its semi-professional nature. Furthermore, when it comes to the company or companies that operated under the same name, we could perhaps infere (despite the prohibitions) a certain continuity of activity over time, even if we're looking at different spaces and a separation of a dozen years.

Contrastive Analysis of the Spanish and Portuguese Future Subjunctive in Temporal Subordinate Clauses

2025-07-04T01:07:16+02:00

Research aimed at clarifying the mood-tense values of the future subjunctive tends to focus on a single linguistic system, often disregarding the use of the comparative method. The objective of this article is to compare the structurally unstable position of the future subjunctive paradigm in the Spanish verbal system with its Portuguese verbal equivalent, by carrying out a comparative synchronic analysis based on a corpus of parallel Spanish-Portuguese texts corresponding to the 15th and 16th centuries.

Portuguese and Hungarian Hypocoristics

2025-06-27T17:36:17+02:00

The aim of this paper is to present the characteristics of hypocoristics in Portuguese and Hungarian. The study is divided into two main parts: the first analyses the processes of hypocoristic formation, primarily from a morphological perspective; the second examines the proportion, gender distribution and formation patterns of the hypocoristics used as given names in both languages. The main conclusions of the study are as follows: the processes of hypocoristic formation show significant overlap between the two languages, although they occur in different ways. Furthermore, certain types of hypocorisation occur in Hungarian that are not typical of Portuguese. Hypocoristics used as given names are more frequent in Hungarian; however, their gender distribution is similar in both languages, and no significant differences are observed among the most common formation patterns.

Gamification

2025-07-28T15:14:52+02:00

This research aims to conduct a theoretical review of the benefits of gamification in teaching Spanish as a foreign language and to know what narrative rewards are and how they are applied in the classroom. Therefore, it aims to examine the impact of two gamified sessions on learning, motivation, classroom climate, behaviour, and overall satisfaction of students, enrolled at the University of West Timişoara, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Spanish language specialization. In conducting this experiment, quantitative and qualitative techniques were used. The results showed that the elements of gamification, including narrative rewards, produce a significant improvement in classroom participation, flow, sense of well-being, autonomy, and loss of the notion of time, and support the conclusion that the use of gamification is enjoyable and motivating for students and facilitates the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language.