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On the Correlation of Center and Periphery
The analysis of the relationship between center and periphery is one of many theoretical approaches found in all fields of the Humanities. Looking at this special relationship from several disciplinary perspectives is an effective methodology for establishing connections between various fields of study. Consequently, the issue contains articles dealing with, among others, the Russian enterprise in Alaska, German polar exploration, gender in Islamic contexts in Europe, labor relations, 'economic securitization', cultural nationalism in Ghana, and Robert Rodriguez's movie Machete. The historical perspective of cultural reception, the economic relationship between central and peripheral areas a...
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal wit...
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The Identities of Catherine de' Medici
An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Recovering Women's Past
Feminist rewriting of history is designed not merely to reshape our collective memory and collective imaginary but also to challenge deeply ingrained paradigms about knowledge production. This feminist rewriting raises important questions for early modern scholars, especially in bringing to life the works of our foremothers and in reconsidering women’s agency. Recovering Women’s Past, edited by Séverine Genieys-Kirk, is a collection of essays that focus on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Scrutinizing the legacies of such politically m...
Strategic Imaginations
Imaginations of female rule and the imaginative strategies of women rulers What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ? Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the pas...
Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010)
Der Regisseur Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) gilt neben Luis Buñuel und Juan Antonio Bardem als einer der Begründer des modernen spanischen Kinos, ist im deutschsprachigen Raum allerdings weitgehend unbekannt geblieben. Sein hundertster Geburtstag im Jahre 2021 wurde daher als Anlass genommen, um erstmals in deutscher Sprache umfassend in sein Werk einzuführen. Beeinflusst vom italienischen Neorealismus schuf Berlanga ein kritisches Kino voller ironischer und grotesker Pointen, das ihm zwar Probleme mit der Franco-Zensur einbrachte, ihm aber gleichzeitig den Weg zum europäischen Autorenkino und zu den großen internationalen Festivals öffnete. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge von ausgewiesenen Spezialisten beschränken sich nicht nur auf seine Meisterwerke ¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall! (1952), Plácido (1961) oder El Verdugo (1963), sondern zeichnen seine Entwicklung von seinen Anfängen bis zur seinem letzten Werk nach. Ergänzt wird der Reigen durch ein bisher kaum beachtetes Interview.
Re-Konstruktion des Realen
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beschäftigen sich mit französisch-, italienisch- und spanischsprachigen literarischen und filmischen Werken der letzten 25 Jahre, die von einer neuen Art realistischen Erzählens in der Romania zeugen. Neben inhaltsspezifischen Auseinandersetzungen steht die Beantwortung folgender Fragen im Zentrum der Analysen: Welcher narrativen Instrumente bedienen sich die Werke, um Authentizität zu vermitteln? Welche Wirkung entfalten literarische oder filmische Hybride aus Fiktion und Dokumentar, Journalismus, Reportage, Sachtext? Welche Funktion erfüllen Intertextualität, Inter- und Transmedialität im Rahmen realistischen Schreibens? Gibt es Formen der "Ich-Erzählung...
Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain
Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language. It is at once a general overview and a set of original contributions to knowledge. The essays discuss monarchy’s rapport with the pre-liberal, liberal and post-liberal nation-state, from the eve of the French Revolution, when the monarchy regulated a ‘natural’ order, to the unstable reign of Isabel II, fraught by revolutions that ended in her exile, to the brief republican monarchy of Amadeo I, the much-maligned foreign king, to Alfonso XIII’s expulsion ...
