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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.
List of contents
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
Javier Moreno-Luzón is Full Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. Among his publications in English is Modernizing the Nation: Spain during the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 (2012).
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.
