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Disremembering the Dictatorship:
The Politics of Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy.
RESINA, Joan Ramon (Ed.)
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000, 248 pp.
Transferred to digital printing 2003.
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Series:
Portada Hispánica 8
"...a work of considerable detail and painstaking analysis which should become essential reading for those undertaking a study of post-Francoist Spain, not merely in the context of its politics, but also in that of culture, literature and film."
Hispanic Research Journal, October 2003
“… an important contribution to the field of Spanish Cultural Studies […] it provides a critical understanding of the Spanish transition to democracy and the role played in it by the politics of memory. […] it acknowledges the position of certain Spanish writers and filmmakers, … as privileged and key cultural producers of contemporary Spain.”
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol.4, No.1, 2003
“…earns high marks and deserves a place on the bookshelves of Hispanists.”
Hispania, 85, May 2002
“…bietet […] neue, anschlussfähige Perspektiven. ”
Iberoromania, no.59, 2004
“Insgesamt liegt mit diesem Band ein gelungenes Kompendium vor, das ... eine große Bereicherung für die „Amnesiedebatte“ leistet. ... Es wäre auch deshalb zu hoffen, dass diese Publikation weitere Untersuchungen nach sich zieht.“
Tranvia, juni 2002, Heft 65
Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions.
Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.
Contents: Joan Ramon RESINA: Introduction. Chaper 1 Salvador Cardús i ROS: Politics and the Invention of Memory. For a Sociology of the Transition to Democracy in Spain. Chapter 2 Christina DUPLÁA: Memoria colectiva y lieux de mémoire en la España de la Transición. Chapter 3 Philip W. SILVER: “¡Malditos pueblos!”: Apuntes sobre los vascos al final del siglo XX. Chapter 4 Jo LABANYI: History and Hauntology; or, What Does One Do with the Ghosts of the Past? Reflections on Spanish Film and Fiction of the Post-Franco Period. Chapter 5 Joan Ramon RESINA: Short of Memory: the Reclamation of the Past Since the Spanish Transition to Democracy. Chapter 6 David K. HERZBERGER: Oblivion and Remembrance: the Double Desire of Muñoz Molina's El jinete polaco. Chapter 7 Maarten STEENMEIJER: El tabú del franquismo vivido en la narrativa de Mendoza, Marías y Muñoz Molina. Chapter 8 Dieter INGENSCHAY: Identidad homosexual y procesamiento del franquismo en el discurso literario de España desde la transición. Chapter 9 Ofelia FERRÁN: Memory and Forgetting. Resistance and Noise in the Spanish Transition: Semprún and Vázquez Montalbán. Chapter 10 Manuel VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN: Autobiografía del General Franco: Un problema lingüístico. Contributors.
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