This volume examines the significance of probably the most famous year in modern Spanish culture. Following Spain's ignominious defeat in the Spanish American War of 1898, the country lost the final remnants of its once great empire in the New World, the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Essays focus on Spain's crisis of identity, the brilliant generation of writers who responded to it, the gap that the Cuban Disaster exposed between tradition and modernity, and the consequences for Spain and its former colonies in the post colonial era.
Introduction: the historical background to the crisis of 1898
Joseph Harrison
págs. 1-8
Introduction: the intellectual debate
págs. 9-51
Tackling national decadence: economic regenerationism in Spain after the colonial débâcle
Joseph Harrison
págs. 55-67
Unamuno and the Restoration political project: a re-evaluation
págs. 68-80
Amor y pedagogía: an object lesson in biography
págs. 81-90
págs. 91-104
Ramiro de Maeztu: hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism
págs. 105-117
págs. 121-131
Authority or authenticity?: The battle of the cultures at the millennial crossroads
págs. 132-145
The 'feminine element': fin-de-siècle Spain, modernity, and the woman writer
págs. 146-155
Deconstructing the binaries of enfrentismo: José María Llanas Aguilaniedo's Navegar pintoresco and the finisecular novel
págs. 156-169
Noventaiocho y novela: lo viejo y lo nuevo
págs. 170-180
págs. 181-194
Constructing the 98: Pérez de Ayala's 1942 prologue to Troteras y danzaderas
págs. 195-204
págs. 205-215
págs. 216-226
One hundred years of solitude: 1898 and 1998 in the Cuban search for national identity
págs. 229-241
págs. 242-251
El discurso femenino finisecular en Cuba: Aurelia del Castillo y otras voces en torno al 98
págs. 252-266
págs. 267-278
págs. 279-290
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