Seminar in Modern Spanish Literature: España s.a. Questions on Iberian Studies

España s.a. (Sociedad Anónima and/or Sin Autor) reflects the problematic condition of a "nación que no acaba de existir" (Alba Rico) as a study case from the colonial crisis at the beginning of modernity to today's global neoliberalism. We explore the current research perspectives of the Spanish nation-state that the federalist movements will call "prison of peoples", others will split into "dos Españas" and that today takes fractal form: the emptied one, the one of the pools, the one in which nothing ever happens, etc. We analyze some of the most relevant recent studies around Spanish modernity (19th century to the present).