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Book SynopsisTopographies 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.
Trade Review‘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.’ -- Jordi Cornellà * Bulletin of Spanish Studies January 2016 *
‘This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature.’ -- C. Prieto * Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014 *
Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translations and Quoted Material 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, Epicentre 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 Notes Works Cited Index