Ghost in the Constitution

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

‘There is ample thought-provoking material and some stimulating insight in The Ghost in the Constitution, resulting from extensive research presented in polished writing.’José Colmeiro, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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