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

• 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

‘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

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

• 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

‘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

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

• 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

‘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