Gabilondo discusses Spanish nationalisms after European integration, and the idea of nations without states, or post-nation-state nationalisms, is interesting. What implications does it have?
These nationalisms mirror franquista nationalism, so they are unlike modern nationalisms in that they try NOT to hybridize (contrast García Canclini). And since Spain is now part of global and not Spanish-Imperial culture, it has become a subsystem of latino-US culture. Notice this interesting category, cultura latino-norteamericana, that’s US Latino, but in Spanish I find it more accurate (less US-centric). This change in Spain’s position is an interesting “inversión poscolonial.”
Meanwhile, lo subalterno es lo NO nacional (gitanos, imigrantes). They are the ground or foundation of the national, but they cannot be named. There is much more in this article, but these are the things I have learned.
Note: the title is great, “Travestismo y novela terrorista: deseo y masoquismo femenino en la literatura vasca postnacional.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 