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Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present

384 Pages

by Routledge

384 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

384 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the multiple legacies of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, with a special focus on the exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era. The various contributions frame their study within a broader reflection on the nature, function and legacies of state-sanctioned violence in its many forms. Offering... Read more

Prologue: Opening Graves to Restore Memory

[José Antonio Martín Pallín]

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain

[Ofelia Ferrán and Lisa Hilbink]

Part I: Mass Graves: "Unearthing" the Memories of Violence

1. Afterlives: A Social Autopsy of Mass Grave Exhumations in Spain

[Francisco Ferrándiz]

2. The Spanish Civil War Forensic Labyrinth

[Luis Ríos and Francisco Etxeberria]

3. Executed Women, Assassinated Women: Gender Repression in the Spanish Civil War and the Violence of the Rebels

[Queralt Solé]

4. Beyond the Mass Grave: Producing and Remembering Landscapes of Violence in Francoist Spain

[Alfredo González-Ruibal]

Part II: Political, Legislative and Judicial Responses to Past Violence

5. Rude Awakening: Franco’s Mass Graves and the Decomposition of the Spanish Transition Dream

[Ignacio Fernández de Mata]

6. Unsettling Bones, Unsettling Accounts: Spanish Perpetrators’ Confessions to Violence　

[Paloma Aguilar and Leigh A. Payne

7. Knocking on the Spanish Parliamen]t's Door: The 2007 Law of Historical Memory and Its Aftermath

[Rafael Escudero]

8. When You Wish Upon a Star: Baltasar Garzón and the Frustration of Legal Accountability for Franco-Era Crimes

[Lisa Hilbink]

Part III: Cultural Representations of Violence

9. Poets of the Dead Society: The Cultural History of Francoist Mass Graves in the Pre-Democratic Poetic Archive

[Germán Labrador Méndez]

10. Pasts in Conflict: Stylized Realism and its Discontents in Historical Memory Film

[Carmen Moreno-Nuño]

11. Regarding Past Violence

[Ofelia Ferrán]

Part IV: Interview with Baltasar Garzón

Truth, Reparation and Justice: Interview with Baltasar Garzón, Then Magistrate of the National High Court of Spain, Conducted 26 April, 2011, Minneapolis, MN

[Ofelia Ferrán and Lisa Hilbink]

Epilogue: Memory Walks, Justice Awakes

[Emilio Silva]