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ENGAGING THE EMOTIONS IN SPANISH CULTURE AND HISTORY
Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History
EDITED BY
Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernández, and Jo Labanyi
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
NASHVILLE
© 2016 by Vanderbilt University Press
Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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First printing 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file
LC control number 2015014683
LC classification number DP48 .E635 2015
Dewey class number DDC 946—dc23
ISBN 978-0-8265-2085-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-8265-2086-9 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-8265-2087-6 (ebook)
Cover image: Julio Romero Torres, Conciencia tranquila (Clear Conscience , 1897 ) . Courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Engaging the Emotions—Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural Frameworks
1. Reasonable Sentiments
Sensibility and Balance in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Mónica Bolufer
2. “How Do I Love Thee”
The Rhetoric of Patriotic Love in Early Puerto Rican Political Discourse
Wadda C. Ríos-Font
3. Emotional Readings for New Interpretative Communities in the Nineteenth Century
Agustín Pérez Zaragoza’s Galería fúnebre (1831)
Pura Fernández
4. Emotional Contagion in a Time of Cholera
Sympathy, Humanity, and Hygiene in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain
Rebecca Haidt
5. “Hatred alone warms the heart”
Figures of Ill Repute in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
6. “You will have observed that I am not mad”
Emotional Writings inside the Asylum
Rafael Huertas
7. A Sentient Landscape
Cinematic Experience in 1920s Spain
Juli Highfill
8. The Battle for Emotional Hegemony in Republican Spain (1931–1936)
Javier Krauel
9. Love in Times of War
Female Frigidity and Libertarian Revolution in the Work of Anarchist Doctor Félix Martí Ibáñez
Maite Zubiaurre
10. From the History of Emotions to the History of Experience
A Republican Sailor’s Sketchbook in the Civil War
Javier Moscoso
11. Affective Variations
Queering Hispanidad in Luis Cernuda’s Mexico
Enrique Álvarez
12. Sentimentality as Consensus
Imagining Galicia in the Democratic Period
Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
13. Emotional Competence and the Discourses of Suffering in the Television Series Amar en tiempos revueltos
Jo Labanyi
14. From Tear to Pixel
Political Correctness and Digital Emotions in the Exhumation of Mass Graves from the Civil War
Francisco Ferrándiz
15. Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart
Political Emotions in a State of Crisis
Luisa Elena Delgado
Afterword
Shameless Emotions
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Contributors
Index
Illustrations
1.1. Goya, “Because She Was Sensitive”
1.2. “The Three [Basque Provinces] Make One”
1.3. “The Ill-Fated Margarita”
1.4. Goya, “And They Are Like Wild Beasts”
3.1. Illustration to Milady Herwort y Miss Clarisa o Bristol, el carnicero asesino
3.2. Illustration to Las catacumbas españolas
3.3. Illustration to La princesa de Lipno o el retrete del placer criminal
5.1. Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), in Eugène Sue, El judío errante
5.2. Caricature of Jakob Rothschild
7.1. Rotary printing press in El misterio de la Puerta del Sol
7.2. Trolley advertisements in El misterio de la Puerta del Sol
7.3. Aerial shots of the countryside and the Puerta del Sol in El misterio de la Puerta del Sol
10.1. Luis Sarabia, Apuntes , “When I Arrived”
10.2. Luis Sarabia, Apuntes , “Call to Arms”
10.3. Luis Sarabia, Apuntes , “The ‘Gato Negro’ ”
10.4. Luis Sarabia, Apuntes , “My Daughter’s Birthday”
10.5. Luis Sarabia, Apuntes , “Victory”
13.1. Andrea and Antonio with image of Franco in Amar en tiempos revueltos
13.2. The roof terrace in Amar en tiempos revueltos
13.3. Isidro, José, and Pura form an unorthodox “Holy Family” in Amar en tiempos revueltos
14.1. Official commemoration and public mourning at Paracuellos del Jarama
14.2. The relative of a victim of Francoism takes a picture with his smartphone, Calera y Chozas (Toledo)
14.3. Reburial organized by the Foro por la Memoria at Menasalbas (Toledo)
14.4. Pedro Cancho with a portrait of his murdered grandfather, Milagros (Burgos)
14.5 Forensic ritual of emotional identification with exhumed victims, Casavieja (Ávila)
Acknowledgments
This book forms part of the Spanish government–funded projects FFI2010-17273 (Ministry of Science and Innovation) and FEM2013-42699 (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), both directed by Pura Fernández. We thank those who participated in the two conferences organized by the editors of this book at the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) of Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC) in 2010, and at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center in 2011, which helped to shape the conception of this volume. The conference in New York was made possible by grants from the Acción Complementaria de Investigación of the Spanish government (FFI2009-06748-E/FILO), the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and US Universities, and the Humanities Initiative of New York University, which also generously contributed to the publication costs of this book. Pura Fernández wishes to acknowledge her debt of gratitude to Eduardo Manzano, director of the CCHS, for his belief in and support of this interdisciplinary project, and to her colleagues in the Cultural History of Knowledge research group at the same institution. Luisa Elena Delgado wishes to thank Marta Segarra and Helena González (Centre Dona i Literatura, University of Barcelona) for their invitation to participate in the conference “Polítiques de les emocions: Diàlegs des del gènere i la sexualitat” (University of Barcelona/Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture) in 2014. This participation, as well as the ongoing project on communities and emotions developed at the center, helped her to shape her contribution to this volume. Jo Labanyi would like to thank Rosa María Medina Domènech for many stimulating conversations on the role of the emotions in Spanish culture, and Luisa Passerini and the other members of the international research team Europe: Emotions, Identities, Politics (2002–2004), which introduced her to thinking about the emotions in the first place. We also wish to thank our contributors for accompanying us on this journey of several years, because their inspiring work made it so much more gratifying. Our special thanks are owed to Michael Ames of Vanderbilt University Press for his support of this project and his efficiency in bringing it to fruition.
INTRODUCTION
Engaging the Emotions
Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural Frameworks
This book aims to contribute to the history and critical interpretation of the emotions in relation to modern Spain, considering their evolution and their social and cultural significance from the second half of the eighteenth century to the present. It does not claim to offer a comprehensive historical account; rather, we have commissioned original essays by scholars whose work has been relevant to the history of the emotions, even though in some cases they may not have seen that as their primary object of study. In bringing them together in this volume, we want to constitute the history of the emotions as a consciously articulated field in the study of Spanish culture and history, and we hope that this first attempt to do so will generate further work that explores the many topics and issues not addressed here.
In this respect, we are building on developments in other parts of the world. The year 2008 saw the creation of Centers for the History of Emotions at Germany’s national research agency, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and at Queen Mary University of London. Since 2011, the Australian Research Council has funded a Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney, and Western Australia. None of these centers includes Spain as an object of study. In the last few years, however, this corpus of international research has attracted increasing attention in Spain (Moscoso Sarabia and Zaragoza Bernal 76–79), and we are delighted that the collaborative Spanish-US research project directed by the editors of this book from 2009 to 2011 has been part of this process. Other emotion-related research groups currently producing interesting work in Spain are Emocríticas, led by Rosa María Medina Doménech at the University of Granada; and HIST-EX, led by Javier Moscoso, a contributor to this volume, at the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC). In November 2014, just before this book went to the publisher, the Spanish journal Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea published a monographic issue devoted to the emotions as a category of historical analysis, recognizing that Spanish scholars could benefit from familiarity with this new strand of research. The issue focuses on the methodological and theoretical issues raised by international scholarship in the field, with just one article (tracing the emotion