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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2008 44(2):110-127; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqn001
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© The Author (2008). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

The Valley of the Fallen: Tales from the Crypt

Katherine Hite

Department of Political Science
Box 142
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
United States


  Abstract

This article focuses on Spain's Valley of the Fallen, the brainchild of dictator Francisco Franco (1939–1975) and the country's largest monument. I argue that, while the monument glorifies General Franco's personal legacy, it also represents a dramatic effort to re-assert a Christian-military nationalist Spain as a model to the world. The article also suggests that the monument calls on Spaniards to struggle not only with the meanings of Franco's defeat of a progressive republic, but also with the country's relationships to its Christian imperial past, to northern Africa and Muslim immigrants to the country, to Fortress Europe, and to current debates about empire and occupation.

Key Words: Spain • Spanish Civil War • memory • monument • Franco, Francisco • fascism • nationalism • legacy • Catholic Church • Catholicism • empire • Islam • Valley of the Fallen • violence

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