The limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition: Questioning the ‘Pact of Oblivion’ through the analysis of a censored film and a mass-grave exhumation

Mateo Leivas, Lidia y Kerangat, Zoé de . (2018) The limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition: Questioning the ‘Pact of Oblivion’ through the analysis of a censored film and a mass-grave exhumation. Memory Studies, 13(6), 1144-1165.

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Título The limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition: Questioning the ‘Pact of Oblivion’ through the analysis of a censored film and a mass-grave exhumation
Autor(es) Mateo Leivas, Lidia
Kerangat, Zoé de
Materia(s) Arte
Historia
Historia del Arte
Abstract The corpses of those who were defeated in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) first emerged in the public sphere during the country’s Transition to democracy (1973–1982). For many, the end of the dictatorship was an opportunity to come to terms with memories of the conflict through cultural and social practices. However, the memories of the defeated could not be retrieved. This state of amnesia became known as the ‘Pact of Oblivion’, a supposed tacit agreement that eventually became an assumed ‘historical truth’. In our view, no such pact of oblivion ever actually existed. We suggest that, although there were indeed initiatives of remembrance, these were contained. In this way, the so-called ‘Pact of Oblivion’ was more of an imposition than a ‘social contract’. To show this, we undertake a comparative analysis of two cases from very different fields: the documentary Rocío (1980) and a mass-grave exhumation in the small village of Casas de Don Pedro (1978). Both share clear similarities regarding the limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition. They also indicate how subtle power relations and structural power mechanisms prevented memory from entering into the regime of visibility.
Palabras clave containment of memory
documentary
mass graves
Pact of Oblivion
remembrance
Derecho civil
Spanish Transition
Editor(es) SAGE
Fecha 2018
Formato application/pdf
Identificador bibliuned:402-Lmateo-0001
http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/view/bibliuned:402-Lmateo-0001
DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018777019
ISSN - identifier 1750-6980 - eISSN: 1750-6999
Nombre de la revista Memory Studies
Número de Volumen 13
Número de Issue 6
Página inicial 1144
Página final 1165
Publicado en la Revista Memory Studies, 13(6), 1144-1165.
Idioma eng
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Notas adicionales The registered version of this article, first published in Memory Studies, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018777019
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