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Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain

Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain

by Nil Santianez
Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
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Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain

Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain

by Nil Santianez

Overview

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

ISBN-13: 9781442663664
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Series: Toronto Iberic
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 430
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Quoted Material

Introduction

1. A Politics of Space

Concepts of Space
Mapping
Planning
Ordering

2. 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 Spain

3. 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 Empire

4. 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 Victory

5. 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
Revenants

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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From the Publisher

“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

“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.”

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