Topographies Of Fascism: Habitus, Space, And Writing In Twentieth-century Spain (toronto Iberic)
by Nil Santianez /
2013 / English / PDF
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Topographies of Fascism
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.
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
WhileTopographies of Fascism
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.
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.
