Center and periphery : twenty-first-century literature, cinema, media from Spain / edited by Amparo Alpañés.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alpañés, Amparo, editor.

Series:

Series in Critical Media Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--20th century.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--21st century.

Spanish cinema--20th century.

Spanish cinema.

Spanish cinema--21st century.

Spanish identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2025]

Summary:

In a country where the richness of diverse cultures is often overshadowed by historical conflicts, this book delves into the complex relationship between the so-called "center" and "periphery" within Spain's borders. Traditionally, the center has symbolized Castilian identity, while the periphery encompassed other regional cultures. But in today's rapidly evolving social landscape, what do these terms really mean? This work reexamines the "center vs. periphery" paradigm through the lens of contemporary Spanish literature, cinema, and media. It poses critical questions about the existence and nature of a unified Spanish identity and investigates whether the tension between these cultural spheres persists. The book also challenges readers to consider which aspects - linguistic, gender, or other forms of identity - play the most significant role in this dynamic. Furthermore, it scrutinizes whether marginalized groups such as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and differently-abled communities are relegated to the periphery in modern Spain. This book may be useful for researchers and students in gender and women's studies, Queer studies, media studies, Spanish literature, and language, as well as those exploring separatism, race, and Blackness.

Contents:

Foreword / Joanne (Jojo) Lucena

Part I: Indpendentism and national identities as the peripheries of Spain

The Ocho apellidos vascos effect: disavowing difference in Fe de etarras / Alison Posey

Vegetable allegorism in contemporary Spain: a reading of Javier Tomeo's La rebelion de los rabanos (1999) / Arturo Ruiz-Mautino

Part II: Disability, Blackness, and Queerness as periphery

Interrogating hegemony: disability and masculinity in contemporary Spanish film / Mary Hartson

Black Spain: growing up as a Black woman in twentieth and twenty-first century Spain in the works of Lucia Asue Mbomio Rubio and Desiree Bela-Lobedde / Olatz Sanchez-Txabarri

To be free: the female other in Arantxa Echevarria's Carmen y Lola / Marina Cusovic-Severn

Cultivating empathy: performing the agency of Sub-Saharan immigrants in the television series Mar de plastico, season 1 (2015) / Marilen Loyola

Part III: Symbolic inversion and peripheral identities front and center

Imagining the end of the world from the edge of the world: radical non-(re)productivity and unproductive expenditure in Destello bravio (2021) / Renee Congdon

The multiple dissidences of Cristina Morales / Marc Gracia Garcia

Hagiographic prints: the symbolic sanctification of La Veneno / Jose R. Dominicci-Buzo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798881901318

OCLC:

1472990574