Ghost in the Constitution

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford.

Reviews'Intellectually engaging, thoughtful, coherent, and logically developed. Resina writes with an elegance of style uncommon among scholars ...the most apt synthesis and expansion of ideas on memory and latency that I have read in recent years.'David Herzberger, University of California Riverside

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 Historical Memory andthe Limits of Retrospection 92 Why Memory? Reflectionson a Politics of Mourning 223 Memory and Imputation 394 Denial and the Ethics ofMemory 585 Warming Up for the War:The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early TwentiethCentury 726 Guernica as a Sign ofHistory 1037 Delenda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory 1148 Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and Internment inFrench Concentration Camps 1359 The Corpse in One’s Bed:Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe 14710 TransatlanticReversals: Exile and Anti-History 15511 The Weight of Memoryand the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War 16812 Between Testimony andFiction: Jorge Semprún’s Autobiographical Memory 18413 It Wasn’t This: Latencyand Epiphenomenon of the Transition 22414 Window of Opportunity:The Television Documentary as After-Image of the War 24315 Anachronism and Latencyin Spanish Democracy 26016 Negationism and Freedomof Speech 27617 Exhaustion of theTransition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence 292Bibliography 307Index 323