Carlos Jerez- Farrán is professor of Spanish and Samuel Amago is associate professor of Spanish, both at the University of Notre Dame.
"For anyone interested in understanding the lasting impact of the
Spanish Civil War on contemporary society, Unearthing Franco's
Legacy is required reading. The editors of this book have brought
together, and placed in constructive dialogue, a comprehensive
group of international authors whose contributions result in a
sweeping and devastating account of the war's deep wounds on
individual lives and collective histories. Meticulously studying
Franco's policies, their impact on the war's victims, and
representations of the war's stories, both those unearthed and
others that continue to be buried, this book makes terribly clear
that the Spanish Civil War and its memory continue to teach us
lessons about the responsibility of scholarship in deciphering the
complexities of the past." —Jordana Mendelson, New York
University
"Unearthing Franco's Legacy is a timely contribution to a subject
that has provoked serious discussion both in Spain and abroad. The
scholars and practitioners whose work is represented in this volume
address the issue of historical memory from different disciplinary
angles, and the interdisciplinarity of the approaches adds much to
the book's value and to the debates that persist regarding this
topic." —David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish,
University of Virginia
“The contributors to this volume memorialize victims by looking at
a number of phenomena that illustrate their faces and voices. . . .
Each section begins with commentaries that engage in intelligent
dialogue with the ensuing essays. . . . Unearthing Franco’s Legacy
is a seminal reference for Spanish Memory Studies.” —The
Volunteer
“The volume . . . deals primarily with some of the main features
and achievements of the historical memory movement and with the
theoretical and methodological problems that the movement raises. .
. . The achievement of this volume is that it introduces
English-language readers to the issue of historical memory in
Spain.” —American Historical Review
“Unearthing Franco’s Legacy is a significant contribution to the
field of transitional justice. Not only does it highlight how a
country attempts to come to terms with a past in the face of
oblivion and silence but it also brings to the fore questions
related to peace agreements, how they affect individual victims and
how they relate to broader issues of international law and crimes
against humanity.” —The International Journal of Transitional
Justice
“The illuminating, often riveting essays published shortly after
the landmark legislation in Carlos Jerez-Farrán's and Samuel
Amago’s important edited volume, similarly propose to navigate what
contributor Francisco Ferrandiz has deemed ‘a formerly neglected
cartography of terror and repression’ and to interpret the complex,
intersecting pathways of political history, collective memory and
cultural reforms of representation that emerge from the place of
the exhumations. . . A great strength of this collection as a whole
is the wealth of disciplinary perspectives brought to bear by
renowned historians, anthropologists, literacy and cultural studies
scholars, and journalists.” —Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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