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Subject(s)

• Collective memory—Spain [Browse]
• Spain—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

• Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 15. [More in this series]
• Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; [15] [More in this series]

Summary note

The Ghost in the Constitution offers a reflection on the political use of the concept of historical memory foregrounding the case of Spain. The book analyses the philosophical implications of the transference of the notion of memory from the individual consciousness to the collective subject and considers the conflation of epistemology with ethics. A subtheme is the origins and transmission of political violence, and its endurance in the form of symbolic violence and "negationism" in the post-Franco era. Some chapters treat of specific "traumatic" phenomena such as the bombing of Guernica and the Holocaust. Book jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.

Contents

• Historical Memory and the Limits of Retrospection
• Why Memory? Reflections on a Politics of Mourning
• Memory and Imputation
• Dental and the Ethics of Memory
• Warming Up for the War; The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early Twentieth Century
• Guernica as a Sign of History
• Delcnda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory
• Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and internment in French Concentration Camps
• The Corpse in One's Bed: Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe
• Transatlantic Reversals: Exile and Anti-History
• The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War
• Between Testimony and Fiction: forge Semprún's Autobiographical Memory
• It Wasn't This: Latency and Epiphenomenon of the Transition
• Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary as After-image of the War
• Anachronism and Latency in Spanish Democracy
• Negationism and Freedom of Speech
• Exhaustion of the Transition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence.

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ISBN

• 1786940221
• 9781786940223

LCCN

2017276564

OCLC

962438394

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