Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

618. The Empire’s New Clothes: Refashioning Spanish Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century

9:00–10:15 p.m., Washington C, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature

Presiding: Susan L. Martin-Márquez, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

1. “Claiming Columbus: Commemoration and Its Discontents in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain,” Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham Univ., Lincoln Center

2. “Spain’s Imperial Consciousness: The Philippines Exposition of 1887,” Alda Blanco, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “‘Estaba escrito’: Historical Revisionism and the Spanish Africanist Movement,” Susan L. Martin-Márquez

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