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Book SynopsisIn this sophisticated study, Antonio Míguez 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 topi
Trade ReviewGeneral Franco’s regime oversaw the killing and mass incarceration of hundreds of thousands of political opponents during and after the Spanish Civil War. Today Spaniards continue to battle over the bitter legacy this violence has left . This book explores some of the places where the repression occurred: many of which have become contested sites for forgetting, denial or the recovery of memory and dignity. * Peter Anderson, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century European History, University of Leeds, UK *
A novel journey through the fragmented history of Spain's twentieth century, through crossing memories and political uses from the divided present * Julian Casanova, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Zaragoza, Spain *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors 1. 20th-Century Sites of Violence and Present-Day Sites of Memory: A Global Vision from the Spanish Case,
Antonio Míguez Macho (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 2. Civil Governors' Offices: Hearts of Rebel Violence during the Civil War - the Granada Case,
Miguel Ángel del Arco (University of Granada, Spain) 3. The Staging of 'Formal' Violence: Sentencing Sites,
Concepción López Sánchez (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 4. Memory and Oblivion of the Paseos: Places and Stories,
Xabier Buxeiro Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 5. The Lavacolla Concentration Camp in its Context,
Rafael García Ferreira (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 6. Imprisoned in Everyday Life: Sites of Violence and Social Control in Franco's Spain, 1936-1950,
Claudio Hernández Burgos (University of Granada, Spain) 7. The Limits of Hell: The Symbolization of Violence through Small Urban Spaces,
Aldara Cidrás (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 8. Violence, Memory and Oblivion of Sites of Violence during the Transition to Democracy after Franco's Death,
Iria Morgade Valcárcel (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 9. Hegemonic Discourses and Public Policies on the Memory of the Civil War in the Basque Country, 1936-2019,
Erik Zubiaga Arana (University of the Basque Country, Spain) 10. The 'Querella Argentina' as a Site of Memory of the Victims of Francoism,
Marina Montoto Ugarte (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Appendix: Illustrations Bibliography Index
