Creating Spaniards – Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain Holguin

Creating SpaniardsCulture and National Identity in Republican Spain\nAuthor(s): Sandie Holguin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press, United States\nImprint: University of Wisconsin Press\nISBN-13: 9780299176341, 978-0299176341\nSynopsis\nA cultural and intellectual history that explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, during Spain's Second Republic and Civil War. It counters recent scholarship claiming that leaders of the Second Republic had no programmes for \""\""inventing traditions\""\"" to encourage a Spanish national identity. Focusing on the Second Republic, [tel], Sandie Holguin illustrates how various intellectuals and politicians of the Republican-Socialist coalition used theater, literature, and film to aid the construction of a unified Spanish culture and history. She uses memoirs, journals, newspapers, parliamentary debates, and archival sources in her examination of the impact that cultural reforms .