Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain
Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice
Published on 18. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-19-815994-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is designed to further the study of Spanish culture in the broad sense of the network of symbolic systems through which social groups construct and negotiate a sense of identity or identities. The emphasis is on culture as a set of practices rather than as a corpus of texts. The aim is to introduce readers to current theoretical debates in a range of disciplines, as well as to inform them about specific areas of twentieth-century Spanish culture. The four sections on 'Ethnicity and Migration', 'Gender', 'Popular Culture', and 'The Local and the Global' cover ethnography, music, TV, advertising, popular literature, medical discourse, film, posters, museums, and urban development.
Reviews / Votes
This provocative collection of essays will, one hopes, engender additional debate on Iberian identity, modern culture, and the theories informing our interpretation of contemporary Spain. * Modern Language Review * Jo Labanyi has edited, superbly, an invigorating and original book. * Modern Language Review * Each chapter has a concise and useful bibliogrpahy, and the volume is well indexed. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies * ... substantial and useful additions to the growing body of research on Spanish and Latin American cultural studies or cultural critique ... enhanced precisely by the way in which Labanyi is able to bring cohesion, relevance and critical vision to what otherwise would be an engaging but rather diverse collection of essays ... in doing so, she proves once again why she is one of Hispanism's leading figures and one of a selected group of critics whose work remains consistently on the cutting edge of their discipline. * Journal of Romance Studies * The differing contributions have been woven together to produce a harmonious, informative and eminently enjoyable volume ... it should prove an invaluable tool to teachers in schools who will find themselves well rewarded when looking for an update on any of the various topics covered. * Vida Hispanica *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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numerous halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-815994-0 (9780198159940)
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Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain
Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice
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Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her books include (ed. with Lou Charnon-Deutsch) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (1995), (ed. with Helen Graham) Spanish Cultural Studies (1995), and Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000), all published by Oxford University Press.
Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. ENGAGING WITH GHOSTS; OR, THEORIZING CULTURE IN MODERN SPAIN ; 2. TRAVELS OF THE IMAGINARY SPANISH GYPSY ; 3. Elusive Song: Flamenco as Field and Passage for the Gitanos in Cordoba Prison ; 4. Parvati Nair 4. Ethnic and Racial Configurations in Contemporary Spanish Culture ; 5. Identities as a Distance: Markers of National Identity in the Video-Diaries of Second-Generation Spanish Migrants in London ; 6. MELODRAMATIC FEMINISM: THE POPULAR FICTION OF CARMEN DE BURGOS ; 7. Authoritarian Medicalization and Gynaephobia under Franco ; 8. Victoria Abril: The Sex Which Is Not One ; 9. Sex, Lies and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, S. A. ; 10. Not Writing Straight, but Not Writing Queer: Popular Castilian 'Gay' Fiction ; 11. FIESTA CULTURE IN MADRID POSTERS, 1934-1955 ; 12. Musical Battles: Populism and Hegemony in the Early Francoist Folkloric Film Musical ; 13. Alaska: Star of Stage and Screen and Optimistic Punk ; 14. Bagpipes and Digital Music: The Re-Mixing of Galician Identity ; 15. UNCANNY IDENTITY: VIOLENCE, GAZE, AND DESIRE IN CONTEMPORARY BASQUE CINEMA ; 16. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art as Popular Culture ; 17. Barcelona's Magic Mirror: Narcissism or the Rediscovery of Public Space and Collective Identity? ; 18. Spanish Quality TV? The Periodistas Notebook ; INDEX