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Author Ferrán, Ofelia

Title Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain : Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern European History ; v. 32
Routledge studies in modern European history.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Prologue: Opening Graves to Restore Memory; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain; Part I Mass Graves: "Unearthing" the Memories of Violence; 1 Afterlives: A Social Autopsy of Mass Grave Exhumations in Spain; 2 The Spanish Civil War Forensic Labyrinth; 3 Executed Women, Assassinated Women: Gender Repression in the Spanish Civil War and the Violence of the Rebels; 4 Beyond the Mass Grave: Producing and Remembering Landscapes of Violence in Francoist Spain
Part II Political, Legislative, and Judicial Responses to Past Violence5 Rude Awakening: Franco's Mass Graves and the Decomposition of the Spanish Transition Dream; 6 Unsettling Bones, Unsettling Accounts: Spanish Perpetrators' Confessions to Violence; 7 Knocking on the Spanish Parliament's Door: The 2007 Law of Historical Memory and Its Aftermath; 8 When You Wish upon a Star: Baltasar Garzón and the Frustration of Legal Accountability for Franco-Era Crimes; Part III Cultural Representations of Violence
9 Poets of the Dead Society: The Cultural History of Francoist Mass Graves in the Pre-Democratic Poetic Archive10 Pasts in Conflict: Stylized Realism and Its Discontents in Historical Memory Film; 11 Regarding Past Violence; Part IV Interview with Baltasar Garzón; 12 Truth, Reparation, and Justice: Interview with Baltasar Garzón, Then Magistrate of the National High Court of Spain, Conducted 26 April, 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Epilogue: Memory Walks, Justice Awakes; Contributors; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass burials -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Exhumation -- Political aspects -- Spain
Memory -- Social aspects -- Spain
Collective memory -- Spain
Social justice -- Spain
Political violence -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mass burials
Memory -- Social aspects
Political violence
Politics and government
Social aspects
Social justice
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Influence
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Social aspects
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126139
Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126177
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hilbink, Lisa
ISBN 9781317532958
1317532953