The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination

This article takes as a starting point the notion that the Spanish post-imperial imagination after 1898 included the period’s preoccupation with the rise of Spain’s peripheral separatisms and the idea of Spanish national disintegration as the last phase of the country’s imperial decline. The article...

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Main Author:	Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
Format:	Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-07-01
Series:	Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
Subjects:	España post-1898 conciencia imperial España invertebrada Ernesto Giménez Caballero Jaume Vicens Vives Notícia de Catalunya.
Online Access:	https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHCO/article/view/56268

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spelling	doaj-72d6766bf1304bcda13e18dabf6d2c5f2020-11-24T23:24:36ZspaUniversidad Complutense de MadridCuadernos de Historia Contemporánea0214-400X1988-27342017-07-0139010512810.5209/CHCO.5626852095The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National ImaginationHelena Miguélez-Carballeira0Bangor University (Gales, Reino Unido)This article takes as a starting point the notion that the Spanish post-imperial imagination after 1898 included the period’s preoccupation with the rise of Spain’s peripheral separatisms and the idea of Spanish national disintegration as the last phase of the country’s imperial decline. The article traces the manifestation of this internal imperial imagination in Ortega y Gasset’s España invertebrada (1922) and its reverberations in the writings on Catalan-Castilian relations by Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Jaume Vicens Vives, which interact explicitly with Ortega’s text. Further, the article analyses the competitive power play present in the Spanish and Catalan twentieth-century national imagination, where symbolic evocations of empire function as manifestations of a coveted masculine power that are used to convey different political solutions to Spain’s internal national conflict.https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHCO/article/view/56268España post-1898conciencia imperialEspaña invertebradaErnesto Giménez CaballeroJaume Vicens VivesNotícia de Catalunya.
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author_facet	Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
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title	The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination
title_short	The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination
title_full	The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination
title_fullStr	The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination
title_full_unstemmed	The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination
title_sort	imperial within: discourses of masculinity and empire in the twentieth-century spanish and catalan national imagination
publisher	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
series	Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
issn	0214-400X 1988-2734
publishDate	2017-07-01
description	This article takes as a starting point the notion that the Spanish post-imperial imagination after 1898 included the period’s preoccupation with the rise of Spain’s peripheral separatisms and the idea of Spanish national disintegration as the last phase of the country’s imperial decline. The article traces the manifestation of this internal imperial imagination in Ortega y Gasset’s España invertebrada (1922) and its reverberations in the writings on Catalan-Castilian relations by Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Jaume Vicens Vives, which interact explicitly with Ortega’s text. Further, the article analyses the competitive power play present in the Spanish and Catalan twentieth-century national imagination, where symbolic evocations of empire function as manifestations of a coveted masculine power that are used to convey different political solutions to Spain’s internal national conflict.
topic	España post-1898 conciencia imperial España invertebrada Ernesto Giménez Caballero Jaume Vicens Vives Notícia de Catalunya.
url	https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHCO/article/view/56268
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The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination

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