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Title Unearthing Franco's legacy : mass graves and the recovery of historical memory in Spain / edited by Carlos Jerez-Farrán and Samuel Amago
Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 394 pages) : portraits
Series Contemporary European politics and society
Contemporary European politics and society.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Violence and Silence -- The Theorists of Extermination -- The Spanish Church and the Civil War -- The Faces of Terror -- Grand Narratives, Collective Memory, and Social History -- "El documental es un arma cargada de pasado" -- Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory -- Mass Graves on Spanish TV -- Testimonies of Repression -- Toward a Pragmatic Version of Memory -- The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion -- Speaking for the Dead
Memory Politics among Perpetrators and Bereaved Relatives about Spain's Mass Graves -- The Rupture of the World and the Conflicts of Memory -- The Intimacy of Defeat -- The Grandsons of Their Grandfathers -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary Unearthing Franco's Legacy addresses the debate in Spain resulting from the discovery and exhumation of mass graves created by General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-371) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975 -- Influence
Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975
Political violence -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Murder -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Mass burials -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Spain
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes
Collective memory
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mass burials
Murder
Political violence
Politics and government
Social conditions
Spain -- Politics and government -- 1931-1939.
Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Spain -- Social conditions -- 1975-
Spain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jerez Farrán, Carlos, 1950-
Amago, Samuel, 1974-
LC no. 2010001660
ISBN 9780268083526
0268083525