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Hybridity in Spanish Culture
Hybridity in Spanish Culture is an anthology that explores hybridity in select works from the dawn of Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The phenomenon of hybridity has been pervasive throughout Spanish history. The hybrid literary and visual texts studied in this volume—ranging from aljamiado writings and the legacy from the convivencia to contemporary immigration narratives—blur or erase purportedly fixed boundaries: between history and fiction, story and History, nationality and transnationalism, subjectivity and objectivity, as well as between genres, cultures, languages and eras. Hybridity constitutes the state of simultaneously belonging to categories that had previously b...
African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.
Through Their Eyes
Even though Elena Poniatowska is considered to be one of the most important female writers in present-day Mexico, few book-length studies have been dedicated to her work. This book focuses on the writings of Elena Poniatowska and also on the work of her former students Silvia Molina and Rosa Nissán. A brief history of the literary workshop that links the three together is also provided. Although the three writers are quite different in several respects, they share one common element that is central to their writings: the depiction of marginal members of society. With reference to Subaltern Studies this study analyses how the subaltern is represented in the works of each writer.
La buena distancia
La cuestión de cómo se negocia la «buena distancia» (Pascale Casanova: La République mondiale des Lettres, 1999) entre lo diferente y lo semejante respecto al grupo cultural mayoritario es uno de los elementos cruciales de este libro. Esto deriva de una observación: el acceso restringido de las comunidades migrantes y racializadas a la enunciación, que se reduce a unos cuantos temas relacionados con su herencia cultural, la experiencia migratoria, los estereotipos culturales o la vivencia de la discriminación y la exclusión social, y deja fuera asuntos propios de la experiencia general o individual. Este problema de dimensiones globales toma la historia reciente de España como estu...
El cuerpo de la emigración y la emigración en el cuerpo
Este estudio explora textos literarios, fílmicos y visuales de los siglos XIX y XX centrados en la temática de la emigración española de carácter interior, continental y transoceánico. Indaga acerca del papel del cuerpo como metáfora de la alienación, desarraigo y crisis de identidad propias del proceso migratorio. ¿Por qué a pesar de la existencia de un corpus literario considerable, la literatura de la emigración española ha quedado prácticamente excluida del canon español? ¿Cuál es su relación con el imaginario nacional y con otras narrativas de contacto alimentadas por discursos imperialistas? El análisis de textos de la emigración en contraste con las crónicas de indias o la figura del indiano evidencia una inversión de la disposición colonial centro-periferia al situar al súbdito español en el margen social, cultural y discursivo.
El viaje en la literatura hispánica
Presente en las letras hispánicas desde su origen hasta la actualidad, el viaje las ha situado entre las literaturas más ricas y variadas de la tradición occidental. Su desarrollo ha sido particularmente llamativo durante el último siglo por la cantidad de publicaciones, la diversidad y la densidad de los textos y la atención que ha despertado en el público. Este libro se propone contribuir a dos tareas hoy esenciales para la crítica: el conocimiento de textos y la elaboración conceptual. Así, el lector observará una división en dos secciones (marco teórico y estudio de casos) que privilegian uno de los dos aspectos, sin por ello olvidar el otro. Comprobará también la presencia tanto de libros “clásicos” como de otros menos reconocidos, ya sean de autores españoles o hispanoamericanos: si la alteridad es un elemento básico de la literatura de viaje, una perspectiva comparatista sin duda enriquece la percepción de autores y de obras. Finalmente, verá que conviven aquí textos de ficción y relatos de viajes reales: todos han sido estudiados bajo la óptica de su carácter literario, considerado primordial respecto a esas dos variantes.
Cervantes on «Don Quixote»
Commentary on Don Quixote is as universal as affirmations of the novel?s importance, yet until now no study has examined what Cervantes said about it. In the prologue to the first half of the work (1605) the self-conscious author, in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the reader and an unconventional friend, makes a good number of comments on his own book. In the opening chapters of Part 2 (1615), the same sort of witty evaluation continues with remarks by Sancho Panza, Sansón Carrasco and Don Quixote in a lively and extended conversation focused on what has been said about Part 1 since its publication and how the characters feel about those readings. The present study carefully examines and compares these and other self-reflective passages to clarify the work?s successes and failures as interpreted by a privileged reader - the author himself.
