An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Imperial Emotions:
Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siecle Spain
reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of
the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the
Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional
responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation,
pride, and shame. It shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a
post-Empire Spain by drawing on myth and employing a predominantly
emotional register, a contention that departs from current
scholarly depictions of the fin-de-siecle crisis in Spain that
largely leave the role of both emotions and imperial myths in that
crisis unexplored. By focusing on the neglected emotional dimension
of memory practices, Imperial Emotions opens up new ways of
interpreting some of the most canonical essays in twentieth-century
Iberian literature: Miguel de Unamuno's En torno al casticismo,
Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol, Ramiro de Maeztu's Hacia otra
Espana, and Enric Prat de la Riba's La nacionalitat catalana. It
also examines the profound implications the emotional attachment to
imperial myths has had for the collective memory of the conquest
and colonization of the Americas, a collective memory that today
has acquired a transnational character due to the conflicting
emotional investments in the Spanish empire that are performed
throughout the Americas and Spain.
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