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Thinking patria: Figurations of the in Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906

Barrile, Matthew J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1497982796374111

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
“Thinking patria: Figurations of the Jew and Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906” examines how the formation of the Spanish State in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was envisioned and debated through the discursive Jew. Figurations of the Jew function as malleable signifiers constructed by non-Jews to convey ideas and make sense of the rapidly changing world around them. This project explores how themes pertinent to the consolidation of the liberal Spanish State are articulated: national homogeneity and cultural heterogeneity; the debate surrounding religious freedom and the resultant economic benefit; the tension between centralization and federalism; and the importance of the literary novel for cultural hegemony. Moreover, it analyzes how nineteenth-century Spain’s centralizing political paradigm could account for the emergence of specific and autonomous regional identities that implied detachment from the desired homogeneity of the State. Included in the discussion are literary novels, plays, poetry, paintings, periodicals, and personal correspondence, produced by some of the era's most prominent novelists, politicians, historians, and artists, including Benito Perez Galdos, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Leopoldo Alas, Gasper Nuñez de Arce, Emilio Castelar, Angel Pulido, Francisco Pi i Margall, Manuel Murguia, Isidoro de Hoyos, and Maria Mariano Fortuny, to name a few.
Aurélie Vialette (Advisor)
Eugenia R. Romero (Advisor)
Pedro Schacht Pereira (Committee Member)
Matt Goldish (Committee Member)
286 p.
European Studies; Modern Literature; Romance Literature
Spain; identity; nineteenth century; Castile; Galdos; Pardo Bazan; philosephardism; discursive Jew

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  • Barrile, M. J. (2017). Thinking patria: Figurations of the in Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1497982796374111

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barrile, Matthew. Thinking patria: Figurations of the in Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1497982796374111.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barrile, Matthew. "Thinking patria: Figurations of the in Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1497982796374111

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