Propuestas para (re)construir una nacion explores how Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain's colonial losses, when Spain's male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazan generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain's fin de siecle crisis, reflects on Spain's place in the international arena (emphasizing the nation's...