Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
© 2013
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.
Product Details
- Series: Toronto Iberic
- World Rights
- Page Count: 430 pages
- Dimensions: 6.0in x 1.0in x 9.0in
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Reviews
‘Topographies of Fascism is an original, ambitious, and innovative study which offers fascinating insights into the use and representation of space in Spanish fascism… Only with books like this will the spectre of Spanish fascism be finally exorcised.’
Jordi Cornellà
Bulletin of Spanish Studies January 2016‘This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature.’
C. Prieto
Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014“An original and enormously erudite work, Topographies of Fascism contributes significantly to historical and literary understanding. I was struck by the Nil Santiáñez’s breadth of research, especially his capacity to uncover unknown or forgotten texts. His objectives are ambitious in the extreme, but backed up by equally extremely solid scholarship.”
Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -
Author Information
Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University. -
Table of contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Quoted MaterialIntroduction
1. A Politics of Space
Concepts of Space
Mapping
Planning
Ordering2. Morocco: The Forging of a Habitus
Colonial Space and Fascism
Technologies of Tropological Striation
Spatial History and Tropological Striation
The Legion: A Pedagogy of the Habitus
Places of Radical Evil
Warmongering and the Colonization of Spain3. Spatial Myths
Fascist Journeys
Habitus and Myth
Castile, or the Ur-topia
The Telluric Being
Rome, Epicentre of a Totalitarian Production of Space
Rome, Capital of Spanish Fascism
The Grammar of Empire4. The City
Hegemony and the City
Spatial Antagonisms and the Rhetoric of Walking
The City at War
Spatial Form and the Rhetoric of Mapping
Into the Battlefield
Longing for the City
Representing Fascist Urban Space
The Performance of Victory5. Russia: Spectres and Paratopos
Returning a Courtesy Call
Territorial Alterity and Absolute War
The Paratopos
The House of the Spectre
The Visit
The Being-for-War
Unforgiving
Ghostly Cities
RevenantsNotes
Works Cited
Index
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