Nazioni, nazionalismi e patrie: la questione dell’identità in Spagna

Abstract

In this issue the whole section is devoted to Alessandro Seregni’s review on Nazioni, nazionalismi e patrie: la questione dell’identità in Spagna (Nations, nationalisms and fatherlands: the question of identity in Spain). Using as a starting point some recent essays, among others Sebastina Balfour’s, Alejandro Quiroga’s and Alfonso Botti’s, the Author studies the topic of the peripherical nationalisms (especially the Catalan and the Basque) using them as research’s subjects, the farthest possible away from reasons of ideological struggle and political polemics. The review deals on basic topics of the reflection on nationalisms, as the definition of nation as a community “liberal” and “tradicionalista”, whence originates the Francoist myth of the “dos Españas”, the concepts of “pueblo” and “lengua”, the attitude of the political parties, especially the PSOE, towards the “invention” of local identities and to the autonomist and separatist expectations.