Francoist Repression and Incarceration in Contemporary Spanish Culture: Justice through Memory [Paperback]

This book examines the cultural articulation of Spanish History (and histories (remembered, meaningful experiences). It analyzes how real people and fictional characters experience the rupture of post-war repression, as their vindicating collective memory counters the authoritarian narrative and laws that demonized and criminalized them. The book, that breaks the persistent cycle of denial of Francoist malfeasance, is a resource for scholars and students who research the representation of Spains dictatorship, its aftermath and the recovery of postdictatorial memory.

Chapter 1: Introduction Legislation, the Banality of Evil, and the Moral Imperative of Memory.- Chapter 2: The Aestheticized Pilgrimage from Fragmentation to Community: the Journey from the Testimonial Page to the Documentary Screen of ?ngel Fern?ndez Vicente (b. 1928), Anti-Fascist Resistant, Political Prisoner and Expatriate .- Chapter 3: The P?rtico de la Gloria in Manuel Rivas Post-war Novel The Carpenters Pencil: Art and Hagiography as a Metaphor that Subverts the Glory of Francos New Spain.- Chapter 4: The Path to Ambiguous Monstrosity: Illness, Martyrdom, and Castration in Emili Teixidors 2003 Novel and Agust? Villarongas Eponymous 2010 Film Pa negre (Black Bread).- Chapter 5: Transgenerational Feminist Memory in Dulce Chac?ns 2002 Novel La voz dormida/The Dormant Voice .- Chapter 6: Miscarriage of Justice: the Perverted Fairy Tale of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and State-sanctioned Removal of Children from Mothers Incarcerated in Madrids Prisons in Ana Ca?ils 2011 Novel Si ha los tres a?os no he vuelto (If I Have Not Returned in Three Years).- Chapter 7: Lessons Learned in Almudena Grandes 2012 Bildungsroman El lector de Julio Verne: Gender, Repression, and Resistance.- Chapter 8: Opening Graves and Seeking Closure: Remembering the Dismembered Beloved on the Quest for Justice in Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahars 2018 Documentary El silencio de otros (Tlãs