The Spanish Civil War: The Weight of Silence
Type de matériel :
TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2007.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : The exhumation of the corpses of people executed during the Spanish Civil War has opened an interesting debate on the memory of the civil war and Franco's dictatorship, breaking for the first time in seventy years the pact of silence that made of the wartime a taboo. Drawing from ethnographic data and fieldwork conducted during the exhumation of various mass graves, this paper aims at exploring the implications of bringing to light a memory kept in silence for decades. It also questions the way oblivion and memory have been used as political tools in Spain all through the twentieth century.
Nous n'avons pas d'exemplaire de ce document
11
The exhumation of the corpses of people executed during the Spanish Civil War has opened an interesting debate on the memory of the civil war and Franco's dictatorship, breaking for the first time in seventy years the pact of silence that made of the wartime a taboo. Drawing from ethnographic data and fieldwork conducted during the exhumation of various mass graves, this paper aims at exploring the implications of bringing to light a memory kept in silence for decades. It also questions the way oblivion and memory have been used as political tools in Spain all through the twentieth century.
Réseaux sociaux