Download or read book Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain written by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological.