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Quixotism - The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Quixotism - The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire (Hardcover, New)
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
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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-siecle Spain and the National-Catholic Spain of the Franco
era, but also the democratic, postmodern Spain of today.
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