Graduation Year
2024
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Foreign Languages
Second Department
International Relations
Reader 1
Carmen Sanjuán-Pastor
Reader 2
Marino Forlino
Reader 3
Jennifer Taw
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© 2024 Juliet L Welk
Abstract
This thesis examines the use of violent repression by dictators and the ways in which that violence is remembered, particularly through the lenses of literature and film. The first chapter will deal with the questions of when dictators choose to use violence as opposed to other forms of repression and against whom the violence is used. To do so, it will employ select cases to test a number of possible answers. The second chapter, written in Spanish, will analyze the memory of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, focusing on the empowerment of previously-silenced voices. The third chapter, written in Italian, will similarly analyze the memory of a dictatorship, this time of Benito Mussolini in Italy. These chapters emphasize the importance of recognizing the past and of making space in the public narrative for the voices of those who were repressed.
Recommended Citation
Welk, Juliet, "Understanding Dictators' Violent Repression and How It's Remembered" (2024). Scripps Senior Theses. 2389.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2389
