LEADER 02616nam 22003853a 450 001 9910645971703321 005 20211214195607.0 010 $a1-78962-346-4 024 7 $a10.3828/9781789622133 035 $a(CKB)4100000011644884 035 $a(ScCtBLL)a190ae7b-87b4-4dfb-b6dc-abefabedd44e 035 $a(PPN)266466109 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011644884 100 $a20211214i20202021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGhosts of Colonies Past and Present : $eSpanish Imperialism in the Fiction of Benito Pe?rez Galdo?s /$fMary L. Coffey 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 $a1-78962-213-1 330 $aGhosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pe?rez Galdo?s, 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, Galdo?s'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 Galdo?s'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. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aCoffey$b Mary L$01276309 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645971703321 996 $aGhosts of Colonies Past and Present$93007520 997 $aUNINA