Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain (Toronto Iberic)

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 Analysing The Comparable Yet Often Overlooked Strategies Of Symbolic Representation And Production Of Space In Fascist Political And Cultural Discourse.--jacket. Introduction -- 1. A Politics Of Space. Concepts Of Space -- Mapping -- Planning -- Ordering -- 2. Morocco : The Forging Of A Habitus. Colonial Space And Fascism -- 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 -- 3. Spatial Myths. Fascist Journeys -- Habitus And Myth -- Castile, Or The Ur-topia -- The Telluric Being -- Rome, Epicenter Of A Totalitarian Production Of Space -- Rome, Capital Of Spanish Fascism -- The Grammar Of Empire -- 4. The City. Hegemony And The City -- 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 -- 5. Russia : Spectres And Paratopos. Returning A Courtesy Call -- Territorial Alterity And Absolute War -- The Paratopos -- The House Of The Spectre -- The Visit -- The Being-for-war -- Unforgiving -- Ghostly Cities -- Revenants. Nil Santiáñez. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [353]-388) And Index. 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. "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."-- Provided by publisher