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Hispanism (sometimes referred to as Hispanic studies or Spanish studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America. It may also entail studying Spanish language and cultural history in the United States and in other presently or formerly Spanish-speaking countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, such as Equatorial Guinea and the former Spanish East Indies.
A hispanist is a scholar specializing in Hispanicism.[1] It was used in an article by Miguel de Unamuno in 1908[2] referring to 'el hispanista italiano Farinelli', and was discussed at length for the U.S. by Hispanist Richard L. Kagan of Johns Hopkins University.[3] The work carried out by Hispanists includes translations of literature and they may specialize in certain genres, authors or historical periods of the Iberian Peninsula and Hispanic America, etc.
- ^ J. H. Elliott, History in the Making, New Haven: Yale University Press 2012, p. 220 fn. 20.
- ^ Miguel de Unamuno, 'Sobre Don Juan Tenorio', La Nación (Buenos Aires), 24/02/1908. Reproduced in Miguel de Unamuno, Mi religión y otros ensayos breves, 4ª ed. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1964, p. 99.
- ^ Richard L. Kagan, ed. Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2002.