Title The ghost in the constitution : historical memory and denial in Spanish society / Joan Ramon Resina

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource Series Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 15 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 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 Notes 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 CIP data; item not viewed Subject Collective memory -- Spain Group identity -- Spain HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Collective memory Group identity Historiography Politics and government SUBJECT Spain -- Politics and government -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007078587 Spain -- Historiography Subject Spain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781786948106 1786948109

  Permalink