Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead ine...
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2021
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| description | Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead inexorably toward 1898, Galdós’s texts question the nature of Spanish imperialism and the effect of colonial history on the lives of metropolitan citizens. Methodologically framed by trauma studies, affect studies and the concept of the imperial turn, a close reading of the texts reveals Galdós’s preoccupation with explaining not only how Spain lost its vast territories in the Americas in the early part of the century but also how Spanish citizens could manage the trauma of that loss through a reconfiguration of national identity. His novels reveal the deeply entwined nature of colonial relations and life in the metropolis. Moreover, by recognizing that the national response to the trauma of imperial loss extended across the nineteenth century, it becomes clear that Spain’s engagement with European cultural and literary movements was, contrary to the assumptions of European imperialism, neither slow nor imitative but rather illustrative of the nation’s unique position on the cusp of the historical shift to the postcolonial present. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-377062025-07-31T14:35:55Z Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present Coffey, Mary L. Literary Criticism European Spanish & Portuguese Technology & Engineering Agriculture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead inexorably toward 1898, Galdós’s texts question the nature of Spanish imperialism and the effect of colonial history on the lives of metropolitan citizens. Methodologically framed by trauma studies, affect studies and the concept of the imperial turn, a close reading of the texts reveals Galdós’s preoccupation with explaining not only how Spain lost its vast territories in the Americas in the early part of the century but also how Spanish citizens could manage the trauma of that loss through a reconfiguration of national identity. His novels reveal the deeply entwined nature of colonial relations and life in the metropolis. Moreover, by recognizing that the national response to the trauma of imperial loss extended across the nineteenth century, it becomes clear that Spain’s engagement with European cultural and literary movements was, contrary to the assumptions of European imperialism, neither slow nor imitative but rather illustrative of the nation’s unique position on the cusp of the historical shift to the postcolonial present. 2021-02-10T14:48:17Z 2021-02-10T14:48:17Z 2021-01-12T04:31:40Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46034 9781789623468 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37706 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46034/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46034/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46034/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46034/1/external_content.pdf Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched 9781789623468 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books Liverpool University Press open access |
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