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This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification and reburial from nearby mass graves.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Republican Identity and Spanish Memory Politics; Chapter 2 Memory Idioms and the Representation of Republican Loss within the Confines of a Francoist Discourse on the Past; Chapter 3 Materialisations of the Dead before Exhumation Introduction; Chapter 4 The Open Grave: Exposed Bodies and Objects in New Representations of the Dead Introduction; Chapter 5 Reburial and Enduring Materialisations of the Dead; concl Conclusion;
About the author
Layla Renshaw is a senior lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Kingston University, UK, where she teaches forensic archaeology and anthropology. She received her PhD in anthropology from University College London. Her research interests include postconflict investigations and representations of the traumatic past, the political and theoretical significance of forensic archaeology, and its representation in the media.
Summary
This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification and reburial from nearby mass graves.
