The Spirit of Hispanism : Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936 / Diana Arbaiza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbaiza, Diana, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pan-Hispanism--Spain.

Pan-Hispanism.

International relations--Latin America.

International relations.

Pan-Hispanism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 297 pages). : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as a form of cultural empire to symbolically compensate for Spain's colonial decline but it was also imagined as an opportunity to materially regain the Latin American markets. Paradoxically, a central trope of Hispanist discourse was the antimaterialistic character of Hispanic culture, allegedly the legacy of the moral superiority of Spanish colonialism in comparison with the commercial drive of modern colonial projects. This study examines how Spanish authors, economists, and entrepreneurs of various ideological backgrounds strove to reconcile the construction of Hispanic cultural identity with discourses of political economy and commercial interests surrounding the movement. Drawing from an interdisciplinary archive of literary essays, economic treatises, and political discourses, The Spirit of Hispanism revisits Peninsular Hispanism to underscore how the interlacing of cultural and commercial interests fundamentally shaped the Hispanist movement. The Spirit of Hispanism will appeal to scholars in Hispanic literary and cultural studies as well as historians and anthropologists who specialize in the history of Spain and Latin America.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE. Hispanism as Vindication

TWO. The Emergence of Hispanic Idealism, 1892-1900

THREE. Complicated Harmonies

FOUR. Ramiro de Maeztu and the Search for a Hispanic Economic Ideology

FIVE. Commercial Hispanism

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title screen (JSTOR, viewed September 19, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268106966

9780268106959

0268106959