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Unearthing Franco's Legacy - Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain (Paperback)
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Unearthing Franco's Legacy - Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary European Politics and Society
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Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of
Historical Memory in Spain addresses the political, cultural, and
historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the
recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the
years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The victor,
General Francisco Franco, ruled as a dictator for thirty-six years,
during which time he and his supporters had thousands of political
dissidents or suspects and their families systematically killed and
buried in anonymous mass graves. Although Spaniards living near the
burial sites realized what was happening, the conspiracy of silence
imposed by the Franco regime continued for many years after his
death in 1975 and after the establishment of a democratic
government. While the people of Germany, France, and Italy have
confronted the legacies of the repressive regimes that came to
power in those countries during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, the
unearthing of the anonymous dead in Spain has focused attention on
how Spaniards have only recently begun to revisit their past and
publicly confront Franco's legacy. The essays by historians,
anthropologists, literary scholars, journalists, and cultural
analysts gathered here represent the first interdisciplinary
analysis of how present-day Spain has sought to come to terms with
the violence of Franco's regime. Their contributions comprise an
important example of how a culture critiques itself while mining
its collective memory.
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