by Américo Castro · TAURUS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788430603985
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In 'About the Name and Who of the Spanish', Américo Castro explores the Spanish identity through a deep analysis of its history and culture. The author examines how names and conceptions of identity have evolved over time, offering a unique perspective on the formation of Spanish national identity. This essay is an essential reflection to understand the roots and complexity of Spanish culture.
Américo Castro Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492).
