The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain

241 Pages·2018·5.246 MB·English

by  Jose Luis Venegas

The Sublime South

The Sublime South
Andalusia, Orientalism, and the
Making of Modern Spain
José Luis Venegas
northwestern university press
evanston, illinois
Northwestern University Press
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Copyright © 2018 by Northwestern University Press.
Published 2018. All rights reserved.
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For Eva and Lucas, my intended readers

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Looping the Loop 3
Chapter 1
The Orient Within: Andalucismo, Africanismo, Arabismo 29
Chapter 2
Culture, Modernity, and the South, 1898– 1936 59
Chapter 3
Andalusia and Franco Spain 95
Chapter 4
The Persistence of Myth: Post- Dictatorial Andalusia 133
Afterword
Breaking the Spell of Identity 163
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Filmography 219
Index 221

Illustrations
Figure 2.1. Aureliano de Beruete, Vista del Guadarrama
desde El Plantío (1901) 69
Figure 2.2. Manuel Wssel de Guimbarda, Escena costumbrista
en el Alcázar de Sevilla (1872) 70
Figure 2.3. Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, promotional poster for
Concurso de Cante Jondo, Granada, Spain (1922) 86
Figure 3.1. La gitana, from Los españoles pintados
por sí mismos (1843– 44) 101
Figure 3.2. Still from Florián Rey’s Carmen la de Triana (1938) 105
Figure 3.3. Still from José Ramón Larraz’s Juana la Loca,
de vez en cuando (1983) 110
Figure 4.1. Map of the Expo ’92 site 147
Figure 4.2. Detail of the Pavilion of Spain at Expo ’92 149
Figure 4.3. Pavilion of Andalusia at Expo ’92 150
Figure 4.4. Section of “La memoria productiva” exhibit at
the Pavilion of Andalusia, Expo ’92 152
Figure 4.5. Replica of Blas Infante’s desk at the Museo de la
Autonomía de Andalucía 159
Figure 4.6. Thematic section “Un pueblo en la calle que lucha
por la autonomía, 1976– 1979” at the Museo de la Autonomía
de Andalucía 160