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eparation. The mythical figure <strong>of</strong> Federico García Lorca, a symbolic<br />

<strong>nation</strong>al martyr <strong>of</strong> the Spanish fascist uprising, assassinated in the<br />

first weeks <strong>of</strong> the civil war for his political <strong>and</strong> sexual orientation, <strong>and</strong><br />

still unaccounted for, is pr<strong>of</strong>oundly symbolic. Like a ghost, Lorca’s<br />

shadow is a powerful reminder <strong>of</strong> the unsettled nature <strong>of</strong> the collective<br />

past, still <strong>haunting</strong> the present. In the same manner as the spectral<br />

representations <strong>of</strong> the past in the literary <strong>and</strong> cinematic works seen<br />

before, this shadow projects the image <strong>of</strong> a <strong>nation</strong> full <strong>of</strong> <strong>ghosts</strong>, still<br />

waiting recovery, resolution, <strong>and</strong> reparation.<br />

A Nation <strong>of</strong> Ghosts?: Haunting, Historical Memory <strong>and</strong> Forgetting in Post-Franco Spain - José Colmeiro<br />

<strong>452ºF</strong>. #04 (2011) 17-34.<br />

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