Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Carlos Jerez-Farrán and Samuel Amago Part I Franco’s Mass Graves and the History of Forgetting Violence and Silence: The Repressed History of the Franco Regime 30 Soledad Fox The Theorists of Extermination: The Origins of Violence in the Spanish Civil War 42 Paul Preston The Spanish Church and the Civil War: Between Persecution and Repression 68 Hilari Raguer Suñer The Faces of Terror: Violence during the Franco Dictatorship 90 Julián Casanova Grand Narratives, Collective Memory, and Social History: Public Uses of the Past in Postwar Spain 121 Michael Richards Part II Documentary Filmmaking and the Recovery of Historical Memory “El documental es un arma cargada de pasado”: Representation in Documentary and Testimony 148 Anne E. Hardcastle Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory 156 Montse Armengou Martín Mass Graves on Spanish TV: A Tale of Two Documentaries 168 Gina Herrmann Testimonies of Repression: Methodological and Political Issues 192 Jo Labanyi Part III Speaking for the Dead: Literature and Memory Toward a Pragmatic Version of Memory: What Could the Spanish Civil War Mean to Contemporary Spain? 208 Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War 221 Joan Ramon Resina Speaking for the Dead: History, Narrative, and the Ghostly in Javier Cercas’s War Novels 243 Samuel Amago viii Contents Part IV Unearthing the Past: Anthropological Perspectives on Franco’s Mass Graves Memory Politics among Perpetrators and Bereaved Relatives about Spain’s Mass Graves 264 Antonius C.G.M. Robben The Rupture of the World and the Conflicts of Memory 279 Ignacio Fernández de Mata The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain 304 Francisco Ferrándiz The Grandsons of Their Grandfathers: An Afterword 327 Giles Tremlett Works Cited 345 About the Contributors 372 Index 375 Contents ix ...