Barcelona
Barcelona – Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between...
View ArticleCatalonia
This book examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia i Unio, which were in power from the post-Franco transitional...
View ArticleThe Darkening Nation
At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about...
View ArticleGolden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of...
View ArticleMelancholy and Culture
Focuses on the subject of ‘melancholy madness’ in Spain. This work demonstrates that the subject of melancholy in the Spanish Golden Age is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to...
View ArticleMaría Zambrano
María Zambrano (1904–91) is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is undoubtedly her poetic reason and...
View ArticleThe Films of Elias Querejeta
The Films of Elias Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain’s most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films...
View ArticleLos Invisibles
Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women’s history,...
View ArticleThe Spanish Golden Age Sonnet
The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best...
View ArticleModern Argentine Poetry
This book will be the first to focus specifically on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina’s history, authors and important political figures have lived...
View ArticleShakespeare in Catalan
Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare currently causing such a stir internationally? What happens to the Shakespeare we think we all know when he is translated...
View ArticleOphelia
It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts – from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet,...
View ArticleGraciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making...
View ArticlePostmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture is a compelling study that combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the...
View ArticleMadness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture
This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the...
View ArticleCatalan Cartoons
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humour in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical and...
View ArticleWestern Sahara
This book explores the dynamic process of construction of the new Saharawi identity, culture and society developed in the refugee camps over the three last decades of conflict and analyses the complex...
View ArticleFantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom...
View ArticleTeresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the...
View ArticleHermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960
Analyses the medical category of ‘hermaphroditism’ in Spain over the period 1850-1960. This title attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological ‘sex’, gender and...
View ArticleColonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese
This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain. For the first time in English, this volume traces the key...
View ArticleGalicia, A Sentimental Nation
Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing,...
View ArticleNestor Perlongher
This book is the first full-length study in English of the work of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). Perlongher’s pioneering work takes...
View ArticlePaulo Emílio Salles Gomes
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped...
View ArticleThe Brazilian Road Movie
The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery explores some of the key trends and films in the development of the road movie in Brazil. Through a collection of essays by distinguished scholars,...
View ArticleGaldos’s ‘Torquemada’ Novels
This book analyses the ‘waste versus profit’ concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nineteenth century Spain) in the four novels of the...
View ArticleThe Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico 1968, and the Emotional Triangle of Anger,...
In the aftermath of major violent events that affect many, we seek to know the ‘truth’ of what happened. Whatever ‘truth’ emerges relies heavily on the extent to which any text about a given event can...
View ArticleThe Spanish Civil War
While the intricate relationship between history and representation is of central concern in society everywhere, it is perhaps alive in Spain than in any other European country. This book features...
View ArticleSex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain
Examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the...
View ArticleThe Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia
In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world. Publicised in the newspapers and carried by migrants along global trade...
View ArticleThe Mexican Transition
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical...
View ArticleThe Novels of Jose Saramago
In this pioneering study of Saramago’s work, David Frier provides a comprehensive introduction for the English-speaking reader to the novels of Portugal’s best-known literary figure. Jose Saramago was...
View ArticleCarmen Martín Gaite
This book reconstructs the poetics of Carmen Martín Gaite by viewing the concept of journey as a fundamental principle upon which she bases and elaborates her narrative writing of the 1990s. Five...
View ArticleAdolfo Bioy Casares
Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic...
View ArticleKilling Carmens
An innovative and best-selling addition to contemporary peninsular literature, crime fiction by Spanish women re-writes the norms for this particular genre as established by male authors inside Spain,...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America
This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international...
View ArticleRemaking Brazil
This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Source
View ArticleProjections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction
Eva Peron holds mythic status in Argentina and continues to arouse interest abroad, as is evident from such cultural productions as the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the film by Alan...
View ArticleRevolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has...
View ArticleWomen in Mexican Folk Art
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and...
View ArticleDoña Bárbara Unleashed
Since its publication in 1929, the story of Doña Bárbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Doña Bárbara Unleashed...
View ArticleCatalan Culture
This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film,...
View ArticleFrom Silver Screen to Spanish Stage
This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the ‘Other’ Generation of 27. In the...
View ArticleBlood, Land and Power
OPEN ACCESS The analysis of land management, lineage, and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent...
View ArticleNationalism and Transnationalism in Spain and Latin America, 1808–1923
The twin focus of this book is on the importance of the Spanish heritage on nation and state building in nineteenth-century Spanish-speaking Latin America, alongside processes of nation and state...
View ArticleThe Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘proverbios Y Cantares’
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his...
View ArticleWomen, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction
In what ways do the politics of memory perpetuate gendered images of those directly affected by political violence in Chile? Can the literary rewriting of painful experiences contest existing...
View ArticleSpain is different?
The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone...
View ArticleReform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836–1861
Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico’s difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from...
View ArticleCurating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning...
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