Modern literatures in Spain / Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labanyi, Jo, author.

Delgado, Luisa Elena, author.

Buffery, Helena, author.

Hooper, Kirsty, author.

Olaziregi, Mari Jose, author.

Series:

Cultural history of literature

Cultural history of literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Catalan literature--History and criticism.

Catalan literature.

Galician literature--History and criticism.

Galician literature.

Basque literature--History and criticism.

Basque literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

330 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country's cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures - Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque - from the eighteenth century to the present. Engaging critically with the concept of the "national", Modern Literatures in Spain traces the uneven institutionalization of Spain's diverse literatures in a context of Castilian literary hegemony, as well as examining diasporic and exile writing . The thematically organized chapters explore literary constructions of subjectivity, gender, and sexuality; urban and rural imaginaries; intersections between high and popular culture; and the formation of a public sphere. Throughout, readings are attentive to the multiple ways in which literature serves as a barometer of cultural responses to historical change. An introduction to major cultural debates as well as an original analysis of key texts, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the literatures and cultures of Spain"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Modernity and the Singular Nation (1700

1840s)

2. From Sensibility to Desire: The Construction of the Modern Subject (1730s

1880s)

3. The Rise of the Public Sphere and the Professionalization of the Writer (1730s

1890s)

4. Countering Castilian: From Retrenchment to the Renaissance of Peripheral National Literatures (1710s

5. The Uses of the Past: Writing the Nation (1760s

6. Popular Culture: Exclusion and Appropriation (1760s

1930s)

7. Urban Modernity and the Provincial: Changing Concepts of Time and Space (1830s

8. The Nation Called into Question (1890s

1920s)

9. Writers and Political Commitment (1930s

1960s)

10. Spain beyond Spain: Exile and Diaspora (1939

1980s)

11. Catalan, Galician, and Basque Literatures: Recovery and Institutionalization (1960s-1990s)

12. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality (1970s

2020)

13. Memory and Forgetting (1970s

14. Normalization, Crisis, and the Search for New Paradigms (1975

2021).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: 9781509545834

ISBN:

9780745634951

0745634958

9780745634968

0745634966

OCLC:

1156990628