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Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe
This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of promising young authors and advocate for modernization and social change. By examining a neglected body of periodicals edited between 1860 and 1920, this book sets out to explore women’s editorial agendas and their interest in creating a connection between salon life and the print press. What purpose did this connection serve? How did women editors use their periodicals and their salons to create opp...
Multiple Modernities
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgos’s multipronge feminist approach. Burgos’s works, especially her essays, are essential feminist reading and complement other European and North American traditions. Gaining familiarity with the breadth and depth of her work serves not only to provide an understanding of Spanish firstwave feminism, but also enriches our appreciation of cultural studies, gender studies, subaltern studies and travel literature. Looking at the entirety of her life and work, and the wide-ranging contributions in this volume, it is evident that Burgos embodied the tensions between tradition and modernity, depicting multiple representations of womanhood. Encouraging women to take ownership of their personal fashion, the design of their homes and the decorum of their families were steps towards recognizing a female population that was cognizant of its own desires.
Morbidities and "The Concept of the New Literature"
Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963) was one of Spain’s most gifted avant-gardists. Oftentimes remembered as the inventor of the greguería—a type of witty and humorous epigram that recasts the commonplace and absurdities of everyday reality—he was a prolific writer and published dozens of novels, essays, short stories, articles, editorials, and biographies throughout his life. Two of his major works—the autobiography Morbidities (1908), and the manifesto “The Concept of the New Literature” (1909)—belong to his earliest period of experimentation. These two early works are of singular importance not only in understanding his development as an avant-gardist, but also in analyzing Spanish literature within the broader framework of European avant-garde culture. With prescient clarity, they highlight many of the aesthetic notions that would revolutionize experimental literature throughout the modernist period. This book offers the first complete English translation of Morbidities and “The Concept of the New Literature,” and it introduces anglophone readers to some of Gómez de la Serna’s most passionate ideas about modernity and “new literature.”
Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)
Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize This book examines how anxieties about colonial power and national identity are reflected in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures during the Spanish colonisation of Northern Morocco from 1909 to 1927. This understudied period, known as the Rif War, is highly significant because of its role in shaping the identities that came into conflict in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Furthermore, the book makes a key contribution to Spanish colonial studies by offering a comparative analysis of Spanish representations of the Iberian Peninsula's cultural and historical relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews in this context, showing how conflicting visions of Spanish identity are portrayed through and in relation to them.
El Corral De La Pacheca
El Corral De La Pacheca: Apuntes Para La Historia Del Teatro Espa?ol
Hijas de Adán
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Migas con miedo
Migas con miedo nos acerca a los márgenes de la sociedad almeriense durante los crudos años cuarenta. Desde posiciones historiográficas cercanas a la Historia de la Vida Cotidiana, la Microhistoria y a los Estudios Subalternos el autor nos propone lecturas desde abajo del franquismo. Los principales protagonistas de estas historias son las clases subalternas. En ellas se presta especial atención no sólo a los sectores politizados sino también a los marginados, a quienes a pesar de tener voz, y usarla, no se suele atender. A partir de la contestación social a la dictadura en el ámbito político, económico y moral descubriremos una Almería mísera muy alejada de su exitosa situación actual. Volver sobre ese pasado de hambre y privación puede hacernos reflexionar sobre cómo gestionamos nuestras presentes comodidades. Un uso responsable de la Historia, y de las memorias, implica que nuestras catástrofes pretéritas generen crítica intransigencia hacia nuestras actuales vilezas. No se trata de igualar Auschwitz y Guantánamo, sostiene Enzo Traverso, sino más bien de preguntar si, después de Auschwitz, podemos tolerar Guantánamo.
