Review\n"Fascinating. . . . Faber's research makes clear that even now, forty-five years after his death, Spain has still not overcome aspects of Franco's legacy." 
--Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker, and author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life\n"A fascinating read by a very seasoned observer of Spanish political life." 
--Omar Guillermo Encarnación, author of Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting\nWhat is left of Francisco Franco&#39;s legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four years. For some, the exhumation confirmed that Spain has long been a modern, consolidated democracy. The reality is more complicated. In fact, the country is still deeply affected&#8212;and divided&#8212;by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. In one short volume, Exhuming Franco covers all major facets of the Francoist legacy today, combining research and analysis with reportage and interviews. This book is critical of Spanish democracy; yet, as the final chapter makes clear, Spain is one of many countries facing difficult questions about a conflictive past. To make things worse, the rise of a new, right-wing nationalist revisionism across the West threatens to undo much of the progress made in the past couple of decades when it comes to issues of historical justice.

Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition

History

Faber, Sebastiaan

Europe

Vanderbilt University Press

Through dozens of interviews, intensive reporting, and deep research and analysis, Sebastiaan Faber sets out to understand what remains of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today. Faber's work is grounded in heavy scholarship, but the book is an engaging, accessible introduction to a national conversation about fascism. Spurred by the disinterment of the dictator in 2019, Faber finds that Spain is still deeply affected--and divided--by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. This new edition, with additional interviews and a new introduction, illuminates the dangers of the rise of right-wing nationalist revisionism by using Spain as a case study for how nations face, or don't face, difficult questions about their past. &nbsp;

Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition, Second Edition

Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped our views of the 1936-39 war and its long, painful aftermath.Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain's relationship to its past. In this book Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain--from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos--provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to engage in a more activist, public, and democratic practice.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped our views of the 1936-39 war and its long, painful aftermath. Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain's relationship to its past. In this book Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain--from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos--provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to engage in a more activist, public, and democratic practice.

Franco desenterrado

Editorial Pasado y Presente

Leyendas negras, marcas blancas: La malsana obsesión con la imagen de España en el mundo

Revista Contexto SL

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Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition

Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition, Second Edition

Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography

Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography

Franco desenterrado

Leyendas negras, marcas blancas: La malsana obsesión con la imagen de España en el mundo