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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period. The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies. Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.

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Author:   Eduardo Ledesma ,  Luisa Elena Delgado
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.480kg
ISBN:  

9780367409692

ISBN 10:   0367409690
Pages:   716
Publication Date:   11 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Professor Luisa Elena Delgado (1962-2024) Introduction: A New Look at Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Social, Political and Cultural History PART 1: SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTS 1. Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and Space 2. Urban Landscapes and the Construction of the Commons: Barcelona’s Superblocks and Urban Voids 3. Rural Spain: Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 4. Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants: Housing Activism and the Structures of Democratization and Capitalism in Spain 5. The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 Spain 6. Information Bytes: From Bullfighting to COVID-fighting, How to Live on Planet Earth PART 2: HISTORIES AND NARRATIVES 7. Narrating Conflict: The Politics of Historical Memory in Spain 8. Representing Loss: Ghosts, Ruins, and Other Traces 9. Buscando al Abuelo (Searching for Grandpa): Unearthing the Lost Bodies and Missing Histories of the Spanish Civil War 10. Posing the Question. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Three Shots from the Spanish Civil War 11. The Periódico Murales of the Spanish Civil War: Recycled Imprints, Contested Conventions, and Shared Histories 12. Transitions, Restorations, Exiles: Assessing the Legacies of the Expelled Second Republic 13. Terrorism and Peacebuilding Narratives in Spain 14. “Evolution without Revolution”: Perceptions of Rupture in Spanish and Portuguese Democratization 15. Acoustic Conflict and the Spanish Far Right During the Transition to Democracy PART 3: GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS 16. The Contested Nation(s), 1900-2023 17. Independence as a Political Strategy: A Party Competition Approach to Secessionism in Catalonia and the Basque Country 18. Patriarchy, Power and Women’s Independence: The Transformation of Marriage and Families in Spain, 1976-2020 19. The Catholic Church and Other Institutional Religions: The Long Road from Catholic Monoconfesionalism to Democratic Religious Pluralism 20. Schools, Scientific Institutions and the Spanish “Brain Drain” (1833-2023) 21. Regulatory Policies and Institutions of Contemporary Spanish Language 22. Prison Abolition in Spain: The Weight of History, the Debate, and the Future 23. Sporting Institutions: The Structures of Spanish Sport Across the 20th and 21st Centuries 24. Football and Politics in Modern Spain: FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Historical Context PART 4: BODIES AND IDENTITIES 25. Franco’s Instituto de Estudios Africanos (IDEA), Spanish Colonial Science, and Local African Responses 26. Boats, Bodies, and Borders: Migration, Dispossession and Patera Literature in Spain 27. Racial Others in Spain: The Articulation of Shifting Identities in the Works of Amazigh/Berber-Catalan Writer Saïd El Kadaoui Moussaoui 28. Women in the Streets: 8M Feminist Protests in Spain 29. Colonial Genderings: Fluid Identities in the Maghreb 30. Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in Veneno 31. Motionless: Disability and Snow White in Narratives of the Crisis 32. A Civil Death: Homeownership, Migration, and the (Un)Making of Urban Subjects PART 5: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIVITIES 33. Early 20th Century Popular Mobilization and Labor Movements in Spain: From the Restoration to the Second Republic 34. Chinese Contributions to Spanish Culture: An Overview 35. Muslims and Jews in Contemporary Spain: Returns, Legacies, Belongings 36. Made by Punk, Makers of Punk: Spanish Women in the Transition Space 37. Narrating Class in Twentieth Century Spanish Literature: From Class in Itself to Class for Itself 38. Social Responses to Material Inequality in Spain (2008-2022) 39. Broken Promises: Precarity and Affect in Contemporary Spanish Poetry after 2011 PART 6: AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES 40. The Atmospherics of Modernity: Flight in the Literary and Popular Imagination in Spain, 1920-1936 41. Auditory Culture in Twentieth-Century Spain: Stereophonic Soundscapes of Modernity, from Print Media to Radio 42. Landscape as Event: Geometrics and Geopoetics in Contemporary Spanish Cinema 43. Intimate Worlds, Public Battles: Gender, Agency, and Autonomy in Contemporary Spanish Cinema 44. Algorithms, the Earth, and the Spanish State: The Politics of Making Digital Art 45. Performance in Contemporary Times: Processes, Community and Audience 46. The Aesthetics of Ephemera: Migrant Subjects and the Unleashing of Place in the Photography of Óscar Parasiego ­­PART 7: CONNECTIONS AND FRACTURES 47. Apocalyptic Visions of the Crisis: The Imaginary of the Flood in Contemporary Spanish Culture 48. Ties that Bind: Madrid’s 2022 Protest Camp as a Transversal Community 49. Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as Collaboration 50. Spain and the Shifting Limits of “Europe” 51. Between Raquel Meller and Rosalía: Popular Spanish Music: (Trans)National and Local Narratives 52. Music’s Mirrors: Identity, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Popular Music 53. From the Mediterranean Diet to Gastronationalism: Cultural Studies and Spanish Foodways 54. Iberia and the Americas: Hispanism and its (Dis)encounters

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Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received his PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and his BS in civil engineering from UIUC in 1995. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (1900-2015) (2016), supported by a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain. His second book is titled Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (2024). His latest book project, Blind Cinema, which studies films by blind filmmakers, has been awarded an NEH Fellowship. Luisa Elena Delgado was Professor Emerita of Spanish, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasías de la normalidad democrática Española (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernández and Jo Labanyi) Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). In addition, she co-edited with Jo Labanyi Modern Literatures in Spain (2023), co-authored with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper and Mari José Olaziregi.

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