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Constructing identity in contemporary Spain : theoretical debates and cultural practice
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Constructing identity in contemporary Spain : theoretical debates and cultural practice

Author: Jo Labanyi
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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These interdisciplinary essays focus on how cultural practices help form the Spanish identity, by introducing a range of theoretical debates and exploring specific areas of 20th century Spanish culture.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jo Labanyi
ISBN: 0198159935 9780198159933 0198159943 9780198159940
OCLC Number: 47150118
Description: xiv, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: engaging with ghosts; or, theorizing culture in modern Spain / Jo Labanyi --
Travels of the imaginary Spanish gypsy / Lou Charnon-Deutsch --
Elusive song: flamenco as field and passage for the Gitanos in Córdoba Prison / Parvati Nair --
Ethnic and racial configurations in contemporary Spanish culture / Isabel Santaolalla --
Identities at a distance: markers of national identity in the video-diaries of second-generation Spanish migrants in London / Cristina Mateo --
Melodramatic feminism: the popular fiction of Carmen de Burgos / Anja Louis --
Good girls go to heaven: the venerable Mari Carmen González-Valerio y Sáenz de Heredia (1930-1939) / Jessamy Harvey --
Victoria Abril: the sex which is not one / Peter William Evans --
Sex, lies, and traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, SA / Josep-Anton Fernández --
Not writing straight, but not writing queer: popular Castilian 'gay' fiction / Chris Perriam --
Fiesta culture in Madrid posters, 1934-1955 / Deborah Parsons --
Musical battles: populism and hegemony in the early Francoist folkloric film musical / Jo Labanyi --
Alaska: star of stage and screen and optimist punk / Mark Allinson --
Bagpipes and digital music: the remixing of Galician identity / Xelís de Toro --
Uncanny identity: violence, gaze, and desire in contemporary Basque cinema / Joseba Gabilondo --
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: high art as popular culture / Xon de Ros --
Barcelona's magic mirror: narcissism or the rediscovery of public space and collective identity? / Antonio Sánchez --
Spanish quality TV? The Periodistas notebook / Paul Julian Smith.
Responsibility: edited by Jo Labanyi.

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These interdisciplinary essays focus on how cultural practices help form the Spanish identity, by introducing a range of theoretical debates and exploring specific areas of 20th century Spanish culture.
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