This article studies the gendered meanings of Galician national discourse with particular focus on the notion of masculinity. The first part of the article analyzes cultural writings in the early stages of Galician regionalism and establishes how the metaphor of Galicia as feminine (and, as a consequence, of Galician manhood as marked with the notions of sentimentality and submissiveness) gradually became an important stumbling block for nationalism's emergence as a viable political movement. In the second section, the author studies how the early texts of Galician political nationalism reacted against such metaphors by means of a heightened masculinist discourse bent on recasting national insurgence as a question of virility. Finally, the author analyzes Ricardo Carvalho Calero's Historia da literatura galega contemporánea (1963/1981) in line with this rhetoric of national virility and as an example of what the author will call the masculine excess present in the seminal texts of Galician cultural nationalism.

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Resumen. Este artículo parte de la idea de que la imaginación post-imperial española después de 1898 englobaba también la temática de los separatismos periféricos, así como la idea de que el proceso de desintegración nacional representaba la fase última del declive imperial español. El artículo analiza la presencia de este imaginario imperial interno en España invertebrada (1922) de Ortega y Gasset, así como sus reverberaciones en los ensayos de Ernesto Giménez Caballero y de Jaume Vicens Vives sobre las relaciones entre Castilla y Cataluña, que interactuaban de modo explícito con España invertebrada. Además, el artículo analiza el juego de poder competitivo que subyace a los imaginarios de la nación español y catalán a lo largo del siglo XX, donde la evocación simbólica del imperio ha funcionado como una anhelada marca de poder masculino, presente en las diferentes propuestas de solución políti-ca al conflicto nacional interno. Palabras clave: España post-1898; conciencia imperial; España invertebrada; Ernesto Giménez Caballero; Jaume Vicens Vives; Notícia de Catalunya.[en] The Imperial within: Discourses of Masculinity and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Spanish and Catalan National Imagination Abstract. This article takes as a starting point the notion that the Spanish post-imperial imagination after 1898 included the period's preoccupation with the rise of Spain's peripheral separatisms and the idea of Spanish national disintegration as the last phase of the country's imperial decline. The article traces the manifestation of this internal imperial imagination in Ortega y Gasset's España invertebrada (1922) and its reverberations in the writings on Catalan-Castilian relations by Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Jaume Vicens Vives, which interact explicitly with Ortega's text. Further, the article analyses the competitive power play present in the Spanish and Catalan twentieth-century national imagination, where symbolic evocations of empire function as manifestations of a coveted masculine power that are used to convey different political solutions to Spain's internal national conflict.

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