Franco's crypt : Spanish culture and memory since 1936 /

Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe-- wrongly-- that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. Treglown argues that in recent years the country has begun to make a more public a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Treglown, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Bad memory
  • Sites and sights
  • Stories and histories
  • note: 1 Bad Memory
  • pt. ONE SITES AND SIGHTS
  • 2. Whose Graves?
  • 3. Rlligator's Dams
  • 4. Franco's Crypts: Monuments, Museums, Commemorations
  • 5. Art's Rbstractions
  • pt. TWO STORIES AND HISTORIES
  • 6. History's Wars
  • 7. Fiction's Memories [i]: First-Generation Novels of the Spanish War and Postwar
  • 8. Franco's Films
  • 9. Fiction's Memories [ii]: Moving On
  • 10. Fiction's Memories [iii]: The Children's and Grandchildren's Stories.