The Body as a Space for Transnational Memory

Since the turn of the twentieth century, Spain is going through a revival of the memories of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939). After twenty-five years of relative silence, in 2000 the excavation of the anonymous grave of thirteen civilians killed in Priaranza del Bierzo in 1936, the first in what was going to be a whole cycle of exhumations, brought about an expansive interest in rewriting the history of the civil war from the victims’ perspective.