Description: How the sustained scrutiny of the ever-evolving idea of Europe by artists and intellectuals helped pave the way for the current protests against the European Union
Brief description: Luis Martín-Estudillo is a professor and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa. He is executive editor of the Hispanic Issues series.
Review Quotes: "As the EU searches for new narratives, Luis Martín-Estudillo has written a brilliant and necessary book that questions Spanish approaches to Europe as Arcadia and explores later disillusions and frustrations. In this ambitious, intelligent, reflexive, and extremely well-informed work, Martín-Estudillo traces conflicts previous to the current crisis, depicting a succession of diverse--sometimes opposing--testimonies throughout Spanish thought of the past eighty years, including acute visual examples. He provides a means to rethink not only discourses on Europe and Spain, but also the very construction of Spanishness as masquerade."
--Estrella de Diego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid