Quixotism : The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire (Suny series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Britt Arredondo, Christopher

State University of New York Press（2004/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 274 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791462560
• DDC分類 946.074

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Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Quixotism explores how a group of Spanish intellectuals, writing during the time of Restoration Spain (1876-1931), incorporated the figure of Don Quixote into an on-going debate on Spanish national and imperial decadence and used this figure to promote a nationalistic and jingoistic formula for national-imperial regeneration. Commonly known as the Generation of '98, these writers turned Spain's military defeat at the hands of an emerging American empire into a moral victory. Christopher Britt Arredondo uses the term Quixotism to denote a premodern heroic ideal centered on the figure of Don Quixote as he explores these writers. Here, he shows how Ganivet turns Quixote into a spiritual conquistador; Unamuno, into a tragic messiah; Maeztu, into a smiling priest; and Ortega, into a paternalistic master. Quixotism is a new critical category of political and cultural relevance, not only for fin-de-siècle Spain and the National-Catholic Spain of the Franco era, but also the democratic, postmodern Spain of today.

Contents

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Monumentalizing Quixote


PART I. THE BIRTH OF QUIXOTISM


1. Quixotist Madness


2. Quixotist Imagination


PART II. DECANDECE


3. Paralyzed Imperialism


4. Perverted Catholicism


5. Diminished Value


6. Resentful Masses


PART III. QUIXOTISM


7. Don Quixote as Spiritual Conquistador


8. Don Quixote as Messiah


9. Don Quixote as Lover


10. Don Quixote as Master


Conclusion: Spanish National Quixotism


Supplement: Don Quixote in Exile and Spain's Ex-colonies


Notes


Index