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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 15
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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 15.
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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. |
| Summary |
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture. |
| Contents |
Historical Memory and the Limits of Retrospection -- Why Memory? Reflections on a Politics of Mourning -- Memory and Imputation -- Dental and the Ethics of Memory -- Warming Up for the War; The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early Twentieth Century -- Guernica as a Sign of History -- Delcnda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory -- Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and internment in French Concentration Camps -- The Corpse in One's Bed: Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe -- Transatlantic Reversals: Exile and Anti-History -- The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War -- Between Testimony and Fiction: forge Semprún's Autobiographical Memory -- It Wasn't This: Latency and Epiphenomenon of the Transition -- Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary as After-image of the War -- Anachronism and Latency in Spanish Democracy -- Negationism and Freedom of Speech -- Exhaustion of the Transition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence. |
| Local Note |
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Collective memory -- Spain.
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Collective memory. |
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Spain. |
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Group identity -- Spain.
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Group identity. |
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Spain -- Politics and government -- 1982-
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1982- |
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Spain -- Historiography.
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal. |
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Historiography. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. |
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Since 1982 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781786940223 |
| ISBN |
9781786948106 (electronic book) |
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1786948109 (electronic book) |
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9781786940223 (hardback) |
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