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pp. [3] 320 plus 8 pages of B&W plates. “Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe — wrongly — that under Francos fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. In his groundbreaking new book, Francos Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was and continues to be a national pact to forget the evils for which Francos side (and, according to this version, his side alone) was responsible. // The myth that truthfulness was impossible inside Francos Spain may explain why foreign narratives (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia) have seemed more credible than Spanish ones. Yet La Guerra de España was, as its Spanish name asserts, Spains own war, and in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to ‘reclaim’ its modern history of fascism. How it is doing so, and the role played in the process by notions of historical memory, are among the subjects of this wide-ranging and challenging book.”
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| ISBN | 0374108420 | |
|---|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780374108427 | |
| Number of pages | 320 | |
| Original Title | Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 | |
| Published Date | 2013 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | New York | |
| Edition | First Edition | |
| Category: | History | |
| Author: | Jeremy Treglown | |
| Publishers: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
pp. [3] 320 plus 8 pages of B&W plates. “Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe — wrongly — that under Francos fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. In his groundbreaking new book, Francos Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was and continues to be a national pact to forget the evils for which Francos side (and, according to this version, his side alone) was responsible. // The myth that truthfulness was impossible inside Francos Spain may explain why foreign narratives (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia) have seemed more credible than Spanish ones. Yet La Guerra de España was, as its Spanish name asserts, Spains own war, and in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to ‘reclaim’ its modern history of fascism. How it is doing so, and the role played in the process by notions of historical memory, are among the subjects of this wide-ranging and challenging book.”
| Weight | 1 kg |
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