Imperial Emotions
Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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6 x 9
Imperial Emotions reconsiders the historical legacy of Spain’s empire by examining the role of emotions in mitigating it. Javier Krauel cogently argues that the fall of the Spanish empire in the late nineteenth century spurred a number of contradictory responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. He shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a post-empire Spain by establishing attachments to imperial myths, which would have a profound impact not only on the collective memory of Spain but that of the Americas as well, where such emotional investments are still in conflict today.
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