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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463487003321

Autore

Santiáñez-Tió Nil

Titolo

Topographies of fascism : habitus, space, and writing in twentieth-century Spain / / Nil Santiáñez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4426-6365-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Collana

Toronto Iberic

Disciplina

860.9/3580904

Soggetti

Spanish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Fascism in literature

Public spaces in literature

Space (Architecture) in literature

Politics in literature

Fascism - Spain - History - 20th century

Literature and society - Spain - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Quoted Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. A Politics of Space -- Chapter Two. Morocco: The Forging of a Habitus -- Chapter Three. Spatial Myths -- Chapter Four. The City -- Chapter Five. Russia: Spectres and Paratopos -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing - essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs - represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed its views on the state, the nation, and the society in spatial terms (for example, the state as a "building," the nation as an "organic unity," and society as the "people's community"), just as its adherents celebrated fascism in its architecture, public spectacles, and military rituals. While Topographies of Fascism centres



on Spain, a nation that produced a large number of fascist texts focused on space, it also draws on works written by key German, Italian, and French fascist politicians and intellectuals. Ultimately, it provides an innovative model for analyzing the comparable yet often overlooked strategies of symbolic representation and production of space in fascist political and cultural discourse.