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Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present: Spanish Imperialism in the Fiction of Benito Pérez Galdós

Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present: Spanish Imperialism in the Fiction of Benito Pérez Galdós

Coffey, Mary L.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismSpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1789622131
ISBN13: 9781789622133
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 19 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.

Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead inexorably toward 1898, Galdós's texts question the nature of Spanish imperialism and the effect of colonial history on the lives of metropolitan citizens. Methodologically framed by trauma studies, affect studies and the concept of the imperial turn, a close reading of the texts reveals Galdós's preoccupation with explaining not only how Spain lost its vast territories in the Americas in the early part of the century but also how Spanish citizens could manage the trauma of that loss through a reconfiguration of national identity. His novels reveal the deeply entwined nature of colonial relations and life in the metropolis. Moreover, by

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