Exhuming Franco

Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, is the author of several books, including Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 (also published by Vanderbilt University Press).

• Chapter 1 Securely Tied DownChapter 2 How Dead Is He?Chapter 3 Surreptitious SurvivalChapter 4 Ignacio EchevarrÍa: 'Two Centuries' Worth of Endemic Backwardness'Chapter 5 Guillem MartÍnez: 'Spanish History Is Full of Bad Jokes'Chapter 6 The JudiciaryChapter 7 SebastiÁn MartÍn: 'A Brake on Democratic Culture'Chapter 8 Ricardo Robledo: 'Yes, Spain Is Different'Chapter 9 JosÉ Antonio Zarzalejos: 'What We Need is Restorative Justice'Chapter 10 Politics and the Territorial ChallengeChapter 11 Enric Juliana: 'We Can't Call Everything We Don't Like Francoist'Chapter 12 Antonio Maestre: 'The Transition Did Not Question the Corporate Oligarchy.'Chapter 13 The MediaChapter 14 Cristina FallarÁs: 'Francoism Never Went Away'Chapter 15 Marije Hristova: 'Many in the Movement Still See Memory as Equivalent to Truth.'Chapter 16 Ricard Vinyes: 'Spanish Liberals Have Always Been More Spanish Than Liberal.'Chapter 17 Emilio Silva: 'The Transition Imposed a Monotheistic Narrative.'Chapter 18 Not So Different After AllBibliography

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