Toward a multicultural configuration of Spain : local cities, global spaces / edited by Ana Corbalán and Ellen Mayock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corbalán, Ana.

Mayock, Ellen C. (Ellen Cecilia), 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Spain.

City and town life.

Cultural pluralism--Spain.

Cultural pluralism.

Emigration and immigration.

Globalization--Social aspects--Spain.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Spain--Social conditions.

Spain.

Social conditions.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Cultural pluralism in motion pictures.

City and town life in literature.

City and town life in motion pictures.

Spain--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Social history.

Physical Description:

xix, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping global identities in contemporary Spain. This volume is comprised of fifteen 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Spain's local cities and global spaces / Ellen Mayock and Ana Corbalán

I. Literary Representations of the Local and the Global: 1. Urban peripheries : toward a new vision of a multicultural community in Rosa Montero's Instrucciones para salvar el mundo / Victoria Ketz; 2. "Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco" : a/version of multiculturalism in Lucía Etxebarria's Cosmofobia / Hayley Rabanal; 3. The sum of us all : alternative images of Madrid in short stories by contemporary women writers / María del Carmen Alfonso García; 4. City and community in Maria Reimóndez's O club da calceta / Pilar Martínez-Quiroga; 5. Street, city, and region as global contact zones : glocalized self-identities and stereotypes in the graphic novel El Nord / Raquel Vega-Durán

II. Migration, Space, and Tourism in Documentary Films: 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; 7. Madrid as a glocal enclave in el otro lado : un acercamiento a lavapiés by Basel Ramsis / Alicia Castillo Villanueva; 8. Ecuadorian immigration and the transformation of religious and civic space in Madrid in La Churona: historia de una Virfen Migrante by María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa / Maryanne L. Leone; 9. Rural repopulation and the fabrication of a global village : the case of Aguaviva / Sohyun Lee; Another look at immigration : La guerra del golf (The golf war) by Lucía Sánchez / Thomas Deveny

III. Multicultural Encounters in Local Spaces : Cinematic Depictions: 11. Spaces occupied, literal and metaphorical, in contemporary Spanish fiction and film : 1997-2011 / Donna Gillespie; 12. The city I live in : Almodóvar reshapes Madrid as Spain goes glocal / María R. Matz and Carole Salmon; 13. Geography of capital : Torremolinos, modernity and the art of consumption in Spanish film / William J. Nichols; 14. Immigration and Spanish subjectivity in No habrá paz para los malvados / Diana Norton; 15. When multicultural landscape becomes tragic stage : Spanish film and immigration on the verge of the millennium / Roberto Robles Valencia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611476699

1611476690

OCLC:

879583559