The ghost in the constitution : historical memory and denial in Spanish society /: historical memory and denial in Spanish society. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joan Ramon Resina.
• Authors: Resina, Joan Ramon
• Contents: Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Historical Memory and the Limits of Retrospection 9 2 Why Memory? Reflections on a Politics of Mourning 22 3 Memory and Imputation 39 4 Denial and the Ethics of Memory 58 5 Warming Up for the War: The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early Twentieth Century 72 6 Guernica as a Sign of History 103 7 Delenda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory 114 8 Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and Internment in French Concentration Camps 135 9 The Corpse in One's Bed: Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe 147 10 Transatlantic Reversals: Exile and Anti-History 155 11 The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War 168 12 Between Testimony and Fiction: Jorge Semprún's Autobiographical Memory 184 13 It Wasn't This: Latency and Epiphenomenon of the Transition 224 14 Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary as After-Image of the War 243 15 Anachronism and Latency in Spanish Democracy 260 16 Negationism and Freedom of Speech 276 17 Exhaustion of the Transition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence 292 Bibliography 307 Index 323.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 946.083; Collective memory -- Spain; Group identity -- Spain; Spain -- Politics and government -- 1982-; Spain -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786948106
• Related ISBNs: 9781786940223
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