Disremembering the Dictatorship

The Politics of Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1352-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

Reihe: Portada Hispánica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Resina, Joan Ramon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.