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Topographies of Fascism
Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
Nil Santianez (Author)
9781487528980
Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2020
430 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg
‘Topographies of Fascism is an original, ambitious, and innovative study which offers fascinating insights into the use and representation of space in Spanish fascism… Only with books like this will the spectre of Spanish fascism be finally exorcised.’ ‘This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature.’
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. While 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.
Illustrations Introduction 1. A Politics of Space Concepts of Space 2. Morocco: The Forging of a Habitus Colonial Space and Fascism 3. Spatial Myths Fascist Journeys 4. The City Hegemony and the City 5. Russia: Spectres and Paratopos Returning a Courtesy Call Notes
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Quoted Material
Mapping
Planning
Ordering
Technologies of Tropological Striation
Spatial History and Tropological Striation
The Legion: A Pedagogy of the Habitus
Places of Radical Evil
Warmongering and the Colonization of Spain
Habitus and Myth
Castile, or the Ur-topia
The Telluric Being
Rome, Epicentre of a Totalitarian Production of Space
Rome, Capital of Spanish Fascism
The Grammar of Empire
Spatial Antagonisms and the Rhetoric of Walking
The City at War
Spatial Form and the Rhetoric of Mapping
Into the Battlefield
Longing for the City
Representing Fascist Urban Space
The Performance of Victory
Territorial Alterity and Absolute War
The Paratopos
The House of the Spectre
The Visit
The Being-for-War
Unforgiving
Ghostly Cities
Revenants
Works Cited
Index