Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain

Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice

Edited by Jo Labanyi

358 pages | numerous halftones | 216x138mm

978-0-19-815993-3 | Hardback | 18 April 2002

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Edited by Jo Labanyi, Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, and Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies, University of Southampton

Contributors:
Mark Allinson is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway College, University of London. He works on modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture, with a particular interest in subcultures. He has published articles on Spanish theatre and cinema, and is author of A Spanish Labyrinth: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (I. B. Tauris and St Martin's Presss, 2000).

Lou Charnon-Deutsch is Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her books include The Spanish Short Story: Textual Strategies of a Genre in Evolution (Támesis, 1985), Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction (John Benjamins, 1990), Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (Penn State University Press, 1994), and Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (Penn State University Press, 2000). Her edited volumes include Estudios sobre escritoras hispánicas en honor de Georgina Sabat-Rivers (Castalia, 1992), and (with Jo Labanyi) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Oxford University Press, 1995). She has served as President of Feministas Unidas, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Peter William Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He is the author of The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (British Film Institute, 1996), and the editor of Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1999). He has also published various books on Hollywood cinema. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Josep-Anton Fernàndez is Lecturer in Catalan at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. His research interests include issues of gender, sexuality, and national identity in modern Catalan fiction, poetry, film, and television, and he is currently writing a book on questions of legitimization and identity in contemporary Catalan culture. He has published articles on Josep Carner, Mercè Rodoreda, Quim Monzó, and Terenci Moix. His forthcoming publications include the books Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction, Contra la normalització, and El gai saber: una introducciò als estudis gais i lèsbics.

Joseba Gabilondo is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Spanish Film at the University of Florida-Gainesville. His first degree in Basque philology at the University of the Basque Country was followed by a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California-San Diego. He has published various articles on Basque culture, and his forthcoming book Archaeology of Global Desire: New Hollywood, Spectacle Hegemony, and the Commodification of Otherness will be published by Duke University Press. He is currently working on a second book After Spain: Postnationalism and Subject Formation in Basque and Spanish Cultures.

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her edited volumes include (with Lou Charnon-Deutsch) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Oxford University Press, 1995), and (with Helen Graham) Spanish Cultural Studies (Oxford University Press, 1995). Her most recent book is Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is currently preparing a book on early Francoist cinema, and is the co-ordinator of a five-year research project An Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 1950s Spain, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, with colleagues in Spain and the United States. She is founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, co-editor of the Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies (from 2001 Journal of Romance Studies), and general editor of the book series Re-Mapping Cultural History (Berghahn Books).

Anja Louis is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis in the interdisciplinary area of law and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, focusing on the Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos in the light of feminist legal theory. She has published an article on Carmen de Burgos and the question of divorce. Her research interests incude melodrama and the visual arts.

Cristina Mateo recently completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on the ethnic identity of second-generation Spanish migrants in London.

Timothy Mitchell is Professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University. He is the author of various anthropological and psychohistorical studies on Spain, including the books Violence and Piety in Spanish Folklore (1988), Passional Culture: Emotion, Religion,and Society in Southern Spain (1990), Blood Sport: A Social History of Spanish Bullfighting (1991), Betrayal of the Innocents: Desire, Power, and the Catholic Church in Spain (1998) (all University of Pennsylvania Press); and Flamenco Deep Song (Yale University Press, 1994). He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Parvati Nair is Lecturer in Spanish at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and is currently completing a doctorate on community identities in contemporary Spain at Birkbeck College, University of London. She organizes the seminar series in 'Ethnicity and Migration' at the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her published and forthcoming articles focus largely on issues of ethnicity and migration in a range of cultural texts, in particular photography and music.

Deborah Parsons is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, and teaches on the literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has interests in European modernism and contemporary culture, early film, and connections between literature and the visual arts. Her research focuses on modernism, space, and the city, and she is the author of Women, Cities, and Modernity: Streetwalking the Metropolis (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is currently working on a study of the urban fairground and carnival as a landscape of modernity, and on a book on Madrid in the 1920s.

Chris Perriam is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Newcastle, where he is a member of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. His main research interests are in contemporary Spanish cinema and literature in the contexts of cultural and gay/queer studies. His publications include The Late Poetry of Pablo Neruda (Dolphin Book Company, 1989) and Desire and Dissent: An Introduction to Luis Antonio Villena (Berg, 1995). He is currently writing on issues of masculinity and its representation in Spanish cinema of the 1990s; and has co-authored A New History of Spanish Writing from 1939 to the 1990s (Oxford University Press, 2000). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Xon de Ros is Lecturer in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College, University of London. She has published articles on film and literature in a number of collective volumes and journals, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Antonio Sánchez is Lecturer in Spanish at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has recently completed a Ph.D. on postmodernist culture in contemporary Spain, which is being revised for book publication. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on cultural theory and contemporary Spanish fiction, film, urban studies, and photography. He has published articles on contemporary Spanish fiction, film, and culture, and is currently researching a book on twentieth-century Spanish photography in relation to modernization, emigration, memory, and cultural identities.

Isabel Santaolalla is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Surrey Roehampton, London. She has published on postcolonial literature, cultural studies and film, with emphasis on the representation of ethnicity and gender in Anglophone and Hispanic cultures. Her most recent publication is the edited volume 'New' Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness (Rodopi, 2000).

Paul Julian Smith is Professor and Head of Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the University of Cambridge. He has written ten boks and co-edited three on Spanish and Latin American literature, cinema, and culture. His most recent books are The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Oxford University Press, 2000). He is an editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

Xelís de Toro is a novelist and cultural practitioner, and has taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford as Xunta de Galicia Leitor in Galician. His publications include the multi-media work Terminal (1994); the novels Seis cordas e un corazón (1989), Non hai misericordia (1990, Premio de Narrativa Cidade de Lugo), and Os saltimbanquis no paraíso (1999); and children's literature.

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