La lengua española y el Atlántico: el panhispanismo antes y después de Trump

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This article examines the role of the Spanish language as a central element of Spain\u27s efforts to strenghten its international soft power after the Transition to democracy. More specifically, it follows the contemporary transformation of language academies from their historical role as custodians of the language\u27s purity to stewards of a transatlantic pan Hispanic unity. The article unveils how this transformation was carried out in part through a narrative in which memory and forgetting render the Atlantic an idealized unifying trope that erases the conflictual elements of the post-colonial relationship between Spain and its former colonies in the Americas.Este artículo examina el papel del español en el fortalecimiento del poder blando de España tras la transición a la democracia. En concreto, expone el devenir reciente de las academias de la lengua, que transformaron su rol histórico como custodios de la pureza del idioma en un liderazgo orientado a la unidad panhispánica transatlántica. El estudio revela que esta metamorfosis incluyó la producción de un relato histórico en que memoria y olvido se conjugan para crear un poderoso e idealizador tropo atlántico que borra la disputa como elemento constitutivo de la relación poscolonial entre España y sus antiguas colonias en la América hispanohablante

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This paper was published in Portal de Revistas OJS.

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