Exhuming memory: Miguel Hernández and the legacy of fascism in Spain

William Rolston; Amaia Alvarez Berastegi

doi:10.1177/0306396818769011

Exhuming memory: Miguel Hernández and the legacy of fascism in Spain

William Rolston, Amaia Alvarez Berastegi

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Abstract

Each March in Orihuela in the province of Valencia, Spain, there is a festival of mural painting in honour of local poet Miguel Hernández. For long the poet, who died in a fascist jail in 1942, had been publicly unacknowledged, but now his life, his work and his political involvement as a Republican political activist are openly displayed. How Hernández is remembered provides a powerful example of the struggles between memory and forgetting in post-Franco Spain. Faced with the contradiction of a Pact of Forgetting in 1977 and a Historical Memory Law in 2007, memory in Spain has to be carefully exhumed from under layers of fascist policies and culture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	38-60
Number of pages	23
Journal	Race and Class
Volume	60
Issue number	1
Early online date	23 May 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396818769011
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Jul 2018

Keywords

Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica
exhumation
Historical Memory Law
Miguel Hernández
murals
Orihuela
Pact of Forgetting
Spanish fascism

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