Imperial Emotions

Abstract

This series aims to provide a forum for new research on modern and contemporary hispanic and lusophone cultures and writing. The volumes published in Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures reflect a wide variety of critical practices and theoretical approaches, in harmony with the intellectual, cultural and social developments that have taken place over the past few decades. All manifestations of contemporary hispanic and lusophone culture and expression are considered, including literature, cinema, popular culture, theory. The volumes in the series will participate in the wider debate on key aspects of contemporary culture.

Decline and Disintegration: National Status Loss and Domestic Conflict in Post-Disaster Spain

“…85 Javier Krauel cites the example of essayist Pompeu Gener, who during the early twentieth century promoted the idea that Catalonia was distinct from racially "Latin" Spain: "Catalonia is the result of the fusion of Aryan races." 86 Catalan physician Bartomeu Robert provides another trenchant example of this sort of distancing. Robert had become an active political regionalist partially as a response to the 1898 defeat, and he was appointed mayor of Barcelona in 1899.…”