Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain (eBook)

Local Cities, Global Spaces

Ana Corbalan, Ellen Mayock (Herausgeber)

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2014
240 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-670-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume foments exploration of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals, economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through the arrival of new residents from around the globe.

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This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping global identities in contemporary Spain. This volume is comprised of twenty essays that examine literary, documentary, and film representations of the multicultural configurations of Spain. All of the essays treat multiculturalism in Spain, focusing on reconfigured Spanish cities and neighborhoods through Latin American, African, and/or Eastern European migrations and cultures. Principal themes of the volume include urban space and access to resources, responses to the economic crisis, emerging family portraits, public versus private spaces, the local and the global, marginalities, migrations, and public expression of human and civil rights. This project examines the intercultural exchange that takes place in recent productions against an imaginary homogeneous Spanish national identity. These films, documentaries, and narratives seek to unsettle the Spanish preconceptions of the ';Other(s).' Therefore, these texts construct a hybrid concept of the nation in which perceived national identities can be altered by interactions with other cultures from a broader world.The originality of the work lies in its focus on contemporary Spanish literature, documentaries, and fictional film to foment exploration of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals, economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through the arrival of new residents from across the globe. Some of the essays question the very legitimacy of the term ';multiculturalism,' others examine the formation of new communities, and still others explore the changes in religious representations and the environmental effects of the tourist industry. Together, the essays offer a compelling portrait of the changing face of contemporary Spain.

Autor

Ana Corbalán is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama.Ellen Mayock is Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Spain’s Local Cities and Global Spaces Ana Corbalán and Ellen MayockSECTION I: Literary Representations of the Local and the GlobalChapter 1: Urban Peripheries: Toward a New Vision of a Multicultural Community in Rosa Montero’s Instrucciones para salvar el mundo Victoria KetzChapter 2: “Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco”: A/Version of Multiculturalism in Lucía Etxebarria’s Cosmofobia Hayley RabanalChapter 3: The Sum of All: The Image of Madrid in Short Stories by Women Writers María del Carmen Alfonso GarcíaChapter 4: City and Community in O club da calceta by María Reimóndez Pilar Martínez-Quiroga Chapter 5: Street, City, and Region as Global Contact Zones: Glocalized Self-Identities and Stereotypes in the Graphic Novel El Nord Raquel Vega-Durán SECTION II: Migration, Space, and Tourism in Documentary FilmsChapter 6: Immigration and Rhizomatic Itineraries of Resistance in the Global City: Reflections on two films: Si nos dejan and Raval, Raval Megan Saltzman and Javier Entrambaguas Chapter 7: Madrid as a glocal enclave in El otro lado: un acercamiento a Lavapiés by Basel Ramsis Alicia Castillo Villanueva Chapter 8: Migrating Virgin: Ecuadorian Immigration and the Transformation of Religious and Civic Space in Madrid Maryanne L. Leone Chapter 9: Rural Repopulation and the Fabrication of a Global Village in Spain: The Case of Aguaviva Sohyun Lee Chapter 10: Another Look at Immigration: La guerra del golf (The Golf War) Lucía Sánchez Thomas Deveny SECTION III: Multicultural Encounters in Local Spaces: Cinematic DepictionsChapter 11: Spaces Occupied, Literal and Metaphorical, in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: 1997-2011 Donna Gillespie Chapter 12: The City I Live in: Almodóvar Reshapes Madrid as Spain Goes Glocal María R. Matz and Carole Salmon Chapter 13: Geography of Capital: Torremolinos, Modernity and the Art of Consumption in Spanish Film William Nichols Chapter 14: Immigration and Spanish Subjectivity in No habrá paz para los malvadosDiana Norton Chapter 15: When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the Millennium Roberto Robles-Valencia CONTRIBUTORS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2014
• Co-Autor: Thomas Deveny, William J. Nichols, Diana Norton, Hayley Rabanal, Roberto Robles-Valencia, Carole Salmon, Megan Saltzman, Raquel Vega-Duran, Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Javier de Entrambasaguas, Maria del Carmen Alfonso Garcia, Donna Gillespie, Victoria L. Ketz, Sohyun Lee, Maryanne L. Leone, Pilar Martinez-Quiroga, Maria R. Matz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Area Studies • Cultural Studies • Literary Studies • Multicutluralism • Spain
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-670-4 / 1611476704
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-670-5 / 9781611476705