Las dos Espanas: Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain

The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century Spanish satirist Mariano José de Larra who, in his essay 'All Souls Day 1836', wrote 'Here lies half of Spain. It died of the other half.' The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues from Catalan independence to the teaching of history in sc...