The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story, cultural history can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Together they describe not a Spanish national “essence, ” but a nationalism that is constantly evolving and accommodates multiple interpretations.
Table of Content
Introduction: The Nation and its Metaphors
Javier Moreno-Luzón & Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Chapter 1. History and National Myth
José Álvarez Junco
Chapter 2. The Flag and the Anthem: the Disputed Official Symbols of Spain
Javier Moreno-Luzón & Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Chapter 3. The Republic, or Spain Freed from Itself
Àngel Duarte
Chapter 4. ‘The King of all Spaniards’? Monarchy and Nation
Javier Moreno-Luzón
Chapter 5. Gender and the Spanish Nation
Inmaculada Blasco Herranz
Chapter 6. Religion: the Idea of Catholic Spain
Mary Vincent
Chapter 7. The Language(s) of the Spanish Nation
José M. Núñez Seixas
Chapter 8. The Americas and the Celebration of 12 October
Marcela García Sebastiani & David Marcilhacy
Chapter 9. Bullfights as a National Festivity
Rafael Núñez Florencio
Chapter 10. Sports and the Spanish Nation
Alejandro Quiroga
Chapter 11. Music and Spanish Nationalism
Sandie Holguín
Chapter 12. A More Spanish Spain: The Influence of Tourism on the National Image
Eric Storm
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He has taught at Paris X, the City University of New York, and Stanford University, and has written several monographs on comparative Iberian and European nationalism, migration studies, and the cultural history of war.
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