Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present
Author | : Jo Labanyi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019 |
ISBN-10 | : 1781889333 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781781889336 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This publication "makes available two decades of work by the pioneering scholar of Spanish cultural studies, Jo Labanyi, covering literature, cinema, painting, photography, and memory studies, with a frequent focus on gender. The essays explore the ways in which cultural texts serve as a vehicle for negotiating cultural anxieties, through their encoding of emotional structures that reveal social tensions and contradictions. The discussion of a wide range of Spanish texts, from the early nineteenth-century to the present, traces stages in the history of the emotions and their imbrication in political processes. The essays have in common an attempt to read against the grain; in many cases, the focus on gender is what makes that possible."--Publisher's website.