In this sophisticated study, Antonio MÃguez Macho and his team of
expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory
in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an
uncomfortable relationship with its own past, this book reveals how
sites of violence also became sites of forgetting. Centred around
places of violence such as concentration camps and military courts
where prisoners endured horrific forced labour and were sentenced
to death, this book looks at how and why the history of these sites
were obscured. Issues addressed include: how Guernica came to
represent Francoist front-line brutality and so concealed violence
behind the lines; the need to preserve drawings made by
concentration camp inmates that record a history the regime hoped
to silence; the contests over plaques and monuments erected to
honour victims; and the ways forging a historical record through
human rights cases helps shape a new collective memory. Shining a
spotlight on these important topics for the first time, this book
provides a new perspective on one of the major issues of
20th-century Spanish history: the history and memory of Francoist
violence. As such, Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain is
an invaluable resource for all scholars of modern Spain, memory
culture, and public history.
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