Auca of the Catalan boy, anti-fascist and humane.

Date: 1937

Archive: National Archive of Catalonia

Document type: Produccions Impreses

Reference code: ANC1-525-N-4

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Description: The “Auca del noi Catalan, anti-fascist i humano” is a piece of illustrated popular literature that combines humor, criticism and pedagogy in a traditional format. This auca, published in 1937, adapts a cultural form rooted in Catalonia to transmit republican and anti-fascist values to a wide audience. With an accessible language and expressive images, the auca reinforces collective identity and cultural resistance to barbarism. It is an example of how popular culture was put at the service of the ideological struggle, and of how tradition can be renewed to respond to the needs of the moment. This document connects with other forms of European cultural propaganda that used humor and visual narrative to defend freedom.

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