Manuel Girona / Jorge Girona

I’m curious as to the relationship–if any–between Manuel Girona i Agrafel, who has a street on one side of Avinguda de Pedralbes, and “Jordi Girona”, whose street on the other side of Av de P takes up more or less where Manuel Girona leaves off. Also as to how Jorge Girona Salgado managed to keep his street (the Avenida de la Victoria lost its to Pedralbes) despite his apparently being one of the 18/7/1936 plotters. Family connections?

Although the council catalanises Jorge’s name according to current administrative fashion, at least they don’t lie about him, as they have done in the case of Francesc Darder, whose street is a few hundred metres uphill. This isn’t named after an obscure eighteenth century monk at all, but after the Barcelona zoo director who purchased a stuffed African from French dealers in exotic dugup and shotdead flora and fauna and, after exhibiting him at the 1888 Exposition, donated him to a museum in conservative Banyoles. There he remained–blacked up, penis stiffened, spear at the ready–until 2000, helping visiting parties of schoolchildren understand the crucial differences between niggers, chinkies and decent white folk. Maybe that’s the kind of historical memory we’re not meant to be recuperating. How confusing.

So, any ideas re Manuel and Jorge?

Trevor @ 29 March 2008 12:43 AM

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