Hispanosphere

English

Etymology

From Hispano- +‎ -sphere.

Noun

Hispanosphere (plural not attested)

1. The totality of Hispanic culture and society (equivalent to the Anglosphere).
   • 2010, Everett C. Borders Jr., Apart Type Screenplay, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 94:

     The many distinctive groups of the larger Hispanosphere are discussed under demography of Latin America, and Hispanic and Latino Americans (for the Hispanic population in the United States).

   • 2011, Srdjan Vucetic, The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

     And the United States might discover that it really belongs to the Hispanosphere or to the new world–American civilization.

   • 2018, Mario Murgia, ““A Songless Plover”: The Delayed Arrival of Edward Thomas in the Spanish-Speaking World”, in Andrew McKeown, Adrian Grafe, editors, Edward Thomas’s Roads from Arras, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, pages 72 and 76:

     I will gauge here the extent to which these two editions have aided to further the late reception of Thomas’s verse in the Hispanosphere. […] Also, the French language became a global lingua franca much before English did, and that certainly has left an indelible cultural imprint in the Hispanosphere.

   • 2022, Kevin Jon Fernlund, A Big History of North America: From Montezuma to Monroe, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     Tragically, it succeeded, leaving North America deeply divided into Anglo- and Hispanospheres with different levels of social development, despite the continent’s shared civilization, geography, and Indigenous past. […] The present volume, then, is a rare thing: a linear history of North America’s social development in both the Hispanosphere and Anglosphere viewed in toto, establishing a baseline in the continent’s prehistory before turning to the period from 1521 to 1823.

   • 2022, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, “Echoes of Greatness: Reinventions of the Conquest in Romantic-Era Spain, 1830–1850”, in Peter B. Villella, Pablo García Loaeza, editors, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, part II (Reinventions of the Conquest in Europe, Latin America, and the United States), page 230:

     In the 1836 debates over whether to recognize the independence of the former American colonies, the progressive deputies argued that this progressive “Hispanosphere” would be linked by positive memories of the imperial heroes of the Conquest and by the celebration of their shared Spanish inheritance (Cortes Constituyentes 1836, 455).)