Sentimental biopower: rereading the Spanish nineteenth century.
Drawing on the theorization by Luisa Passerini and Kyla Schuller of Eurocentric notions that linked racial superiority to emotional refinement, the article will trace a substratum of biopolitical thinking across a range of Spanish texts from the 1830s to the 1880s. The use of medieval settings in Ro...
| Published in: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 175 - 186 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2021
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