Spanish Fascist Writing: (Toronto Iberic)

Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index

About the Author :
María Soledad Barbón is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Justin Crumbaugh is an associate professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University. Justin Crumbaugh is an associate professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University.

Review :
"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." - MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature Committee