Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South / Brittany Powell Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Brittany Powell, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history--Southern States--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Spain--History--20th century.

Politics and literature--Spain--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Comparative literature--American and Spanish.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Spanish and American.

Fascism and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.

Fascism and literature.

Fascism and literature--Spain--History--20th century.

Fascism in literature.

Racism in literature.

Francoism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's Spain

Contents:

Introduction: constructing Spanish and Southern exceptionality

Breathing modern life into the Quijote: Spanish and Southern regeneration in the new century

The religion of blood and myth: William Faulkner's and Camilo Jose Cela's modern subjects

Fleeing exceptionality in A little red MG: driving through national melancholia

Contesting narratives of failed performance: racial identity and national exceptionality

Being "bad" and objectified womanhood: transgressive femininity in Spain and the South

Exceptionality as leisure: tourism and urban planning in the New South and democratic Spain

Conclusion: from tourism to time travel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62674-494-7

OCLC:

891427776