Francoist Repression and Incarceration in Contemporary Spanish Culture

<p>Chapter 1: Introduction Legislation, the Banality of Evil, and the Moral Imperative of Memory.- Chapter 2: The Aestheticized Pilgrimage from Fragmentation to Community: the Journey from the Testimonial Page to the Documentary Screen of Ángel Fernández Vicente (b. 1928), Anti-Fascist Resistant, Political Prisoner and Expatriate .- Chapter 3: The Pórtico de la Gloria in Manuel Rivas’ Post-war Novel The Carpenter’s Pencil: Art and Hagiography as a Metaphor that Subverts the Glory of Franco’s New Spain.- Chapter 4: The Path to Ambiguous Monstrosity: Illness, Martyrdom, and Castration in Emili Teixidor’s 2003 Novel and Agustí Villaronga’s Eponymous 2010 Film Pa negre (Black Bread).- Chapter 5: Transgenerational Feminist Memory in Dulce Chacón’s 2002 Novel La voz dormida/The Dormant Voice .- Chapter 6: Miscarriage of Justice: the Perverted Fairy Tale of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and State-sanctioned Removal of Children from Mothers Incarcerated in Madrid’s Prisons in Ana Cañil’s 2011 Novel Si ha los tres años no he vuelto (If I Have Not Returned in Three Years).- Chapter 7: Lessons Learned in Almudena Grandes’ 2012 Bildungsroman El lector de Julio Verne: Gender, Repression, and Resistance.- Chapter 8: Opening Graves and Seeking Closure: Remembering the Dismembered Beloved on the Quest for Justice in Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s 2018 Documentary El silencio de otros (The Silence of Others).</p>