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Constructing Spain
Author | : Nathan E. Richardson |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781611483963 |
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Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially reopened to Western thought and capital, and culminating in 2003, the year of Aznar's unpopular involvement of his country in the second Iraq War, Richardson traces in popular and critically acclaimed fiction and film an evolution in Spanish storytelling that, while initially representative in nature, increasingly engages its audience in spatial practices that go beyond mere perception or conception of local material geographies. In original readings of films by Luis Berlanga, Luis Bu uel, Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amen bar, and Julio Medem, and novels by Juan Goytisolo, Antonio Mu oz Molina, and Javier Mar as, Richardson shows this formal evolution as a necessary response to developments, restorations, and transformations of local landscapes that resulted during these years from various human migrations, tourist-invasions, urban development plans, resurgent nationalisms, and finally globalization. As these changes occur, Richardson traces a shift in the works studied from mere representation of spatial change toward actual engagement with shifting physical and social geographies, as they inch ever closer toward the production of an actual spatial experience for their audiences. In the final chapters of this book, Richardson offers in-depth and highly original readings of the storytelling projects of Medem and Mar as in particular, showing how these two artists invite readers to not only reconceive hegemonic notions of space and place, but to practice alternative notions of being-in-place. In these final readings, Constructing Spain, points to the newest developments in contemporary Spanish narrative and film, a rise of new grammars of creation to challenge the ongoing capital-driven creative destruction of globalized Spanish geography.
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain
Author | : Jo Labanyi |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : National characteristics, Spanish |
ISBN | : 0198159935 |
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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.
Constructing Spanish Womanhood
Author | : Victoria Lorée Enders,Pamela Beth Radcliff |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 079144029X |
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The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.
Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain
Author | : Rafael Torres Sánchez |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137478665 |
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Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the eighteenth century as the last episode in a long history of decline that is directly linked to the failure of the sixteenth-century Spanish imperial absolutist monarchy. This study provides a different perspective, suggesting that in fact during the eighteenth century, Spain's fiscal-military state was reconstructed and grew. It shows how the development of the Spanish fiscal-military state was based on different growth factors to those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and that with this change, most of the state's structure and its relationship with élites and taxpayers altered irrevocably. In the ceaseless search for solutions, the Spanish state applied a wide range of financial and fiscal policies to expand its empire. The research in this book is inspired by current historical discussions, and provides a new perspective on the historical debate that often compares English 'success' with continental 'failure'.
Migration and the Construction of National Identity in Spain
Author | : Désirée Kleiner-Liebau |
Publsiher | : Iberoamericana Editorial |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8484894762 |
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Public debate about immigrant integration has often led to a heightened awareness or even a collective redefinition of identiy. Such processes are studied through the unique example of Spain.
Investigation of Spanish Airbase Construction Program
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Air bases, American |
ISBN | : LOC:00187002734 |
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Investigation of Spanish Airbase Construction Program
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee for Special Investigations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Air bases |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D02159020N |
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Investigation of Spanish Airbase Construction Program Report and Hearings of the Subcommittee for Special Investigations of the Subcommittee for Special Investigations of 84 1 Under the Authority of H Res 112 Hearings Held on February 1 and 2 1955
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045139370 |
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