SPAIN TODAY

ESSAYS ON LITERATURE,CULTURE, SOCIETY

Edited by José Colmeiro, Christina Dupláa,  Patricia Greene
               and Juana Sabadell
 

          This collection of critical essays presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the contemporary cultural forces and new critical currents that have completely redefined Spain in the last two decades. The post-Franco cultural renaissance in Spain has manifested itself in a variety of forms: the recovery and normalization of a strong and plural diversity, the expansion of mass media technologies, the commodification of cultural production, the consolidation of public and private institutions, and the demarginalization of discourses marked by gender, class and ethnicity. The essays included in this anthology address the impact of this cultural renovation from new critical perspectives within the framework of Neo-Hispanism, reflecting the plurality of currents in the field of Iberian Studies. 

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SPAIN TODAY: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE,CULTURE, SOCIETY   

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CONTENTS:

  • Introduction; Lourdes Ortiz "¿Qué puede la literatura?";
  • Victor Fuentes, "More than Three Forms of Distortion in 20th Century Spanish Literary Historiography: Counterpoint Alternatives";
  • David K. Herzberger, "Reading Fiction Through Historiography (or Vice Versa?)";
  • Jaume Martí-Olivella, "Towards a Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Spanish Film"; Marvin D’Lugo, "Bigas Luna’s Jamón, Jamón: Remaking the National in Spanish Cinema";
  • Paul Julian Smith, "Kika: Vision Machine";
  • Susan Kirkpatrick, "Gender and Difference in Fin de siglo Literary Discourse"; Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca, "The Question of the Political Subject in Nineteeth-Century Spanish Domestic Discourse";
  • Geraldine Nichols, "The Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Women Writers of Catalonia";
  • Dionisio Cañas, "2001 poesía española: ¿la frontera final?";
  • Darío Villanueva, The Evolution of the Spanish Literary System.
  • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and José Colmeiro, "¿Qué pueden los intelectuales?"

1995,  ISBN 0-9648929-0-1,  188 pages

 

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