UID:
almahu_9949301415202882
Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:
9781781385623
Series Statement:
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Ser. ; v.10
Content:
A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Coyright page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Redressing the Silencing of Empire -- Imperialism and Nationalism -- The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies -- Imperial Legacies and National Reform -- Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character -- Chapter 1 -- Columbus in 1892 -- Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past -- Freethinkers and Empire -- The Failure of the Federalist Critique -- Chapter 2 -- Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition -- Empire and casticismo -- Mourning Imperial Values -- Chapter 3 -- Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence -- Independence, Expansion, Modernity -- The Paradox of Empire and Melancholia -- Chapter 4 -- Anger and Indignation -- Nietzsche's Critical History -- The Conquest of the meseta as a Second (Imperial) Nature -- Chapter 5 -- Catalanist Mood circa 1906 -- The Subdued Emotions of Cognition and Controversy -- Imperialism and the Creation of National Pride -- Witnessing the Spanish Empire's Shame -- Conclusion -- The Vanishing of Ambivalence -- The Moral Implications of Imperial Emotions -- Works Cited -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Krauel, Javier Imperial Emotions Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781846319761
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
