Imperial Emotions Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / Javier Krauel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krauel, Javier, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Sià ̈cle Spain reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. By focusing on the neglected emotional dimension of memory practices, Imperial Emotions opens up new ways of interpreting some of the most canonical essays in twentieth-century Iberian literature: Miguel de Unamuno's En torno al casticismo, Ángel Ganivet's Idearium español, Ramiro de Maeztu's Hacia otra España, and Enric Prat de la Riba's La nacionalitat catalana. It also examines the profound implications the emotional attachment to imperial myths has had for the collective memory of the conquest and colonization of the Americas.

Contents:

1 Imperial Myths and the National Imagination 40

Columbus in 1892 43

Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past 50

Freethinkers and Empire 63

The Failure of the Federalist Critique 68

2 An Incomplete Work of Imperial Mourning: Miguel de Unamuno's En torno al casticismo 83

Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition 83

Empire and casticismo 86

Mourning Imperial Values 94

3 Fin-de-Sièck Imperial Melancholia: Ángel Ganivet's Idearium español 103

Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence 103

Independence, Expansion, Modernity 106

The Paradox of Empire and Melancholia 116

4 The Anatomy of Imperial Indignation: Ramiro de Maeztu's Hacia otra España 124

Anger and Indignation 124

Nietzsche's Critical History 135

The Conquest of the meseta as a Second (Imperial) Nature 140

5 The Politics of Imperial Pride and Shame: Enric Prat de la Riba's La nacionalitat catalana 147

Catalanist Mood circa 1906 147

The Subdued Emotions of Cognition and Controversy 149

Imperialism and the Creation of National Pride 155

Witnessing the Spanish Empire's Shame 164.

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BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101281

ISBN:

9781846319761