Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th – 21st Century

Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century is an exploration of the general concept of Spanishness as all things related to Spain, specifically as the multiple meanings of Spanishness and the different ways of being Spanish are depicted in 20th-21st century literary and cinematic fiction of Spain. This book also represents a call for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means not just in post-Franco Spain but also in the Spain of the new millennium. The reader will find treatments of some of the crucial themes in Spanish culture such as immigration, nationalisms, and affiliation with the European Union as well as many others of contemporary relevance such as time, memory, and women studies that defy exclusivist and clear-cut single notions of Spanishness. These explorations will help contextualize what it means to be Spanish in present day Spain and in the light of globalization while also dissipating stereotypical notions of Spain and Spanishness. From Iberianness to Spanishness : being Spanish in 20th-21st century Spain -- Cristina Sánchez-Conejero Spanishness and identity formation from the Civil War to the present : exploring the residue of time -- David K. Herzberger Deleuze and the Barcelona School : time in Vicente Aranda's Fata morgana (1963) -- David Vilaseca Nostalgia, myth, and science in Rivas's El lápiz del carpintero -- Lucy D. Harney Memory, identity and self-discovery in Manuel Rico's Los días de Eisenhower -- Agustín Martínez-Samos Tourism, structural underdevelopment, and anthropological distancing in Juan Goytisolo's essays, travelogues, and fiction 1959-1967 -- Eugenia Afinoguénova Exclusion and marginalization of dissidence in the novels of the Spanish guerrilla -- M. Cinta Ramblado-Minero Family therapy and Spanish difference/deviance in Almodóvar's Taconas lejanos -- Anne E. Hardcastle The Spanish Bildung of Deza/Marías by Wheeler/Russell in Tu rostro mañana -- Stephen Miller Cultural specificity and trans-national address in the new generation of Spanish film authors : The case of Alejandro Amenábar -- Violent nation : histories and stories of Spanishness -- Sound ideas or unsound practices? : listening for "Spanishness" in Peninsular film -- Patricia Hart "This festering wound" : negotiating Spanishness in Galician cultural discourse -- Kirsty Hooper Out of order : "Spanishness" as process in El espiritu de la colmena -- Robert J. Miles From illiterate Andalusian Xarnega to proper bourgeois lady : the failure of forced acculturation in Montserrat Roig's La ópera cotidiana -- Maureen Tobin Stanley Identifications, abjects, and objects : myths of gender and nation in the early 20th century Spanish novel -- Alison Sinclair Hooking for Spanishness : immigration and prostitution in León de Aranoa's Princesas -- Cristina Sánchez-Conejero Pal White's redemption : gender and Spanishness in Manuel Mur Oti's Una chica de Chicago -- Jorge Marí Straitened circumstances : Spanishness, psychogeography, and the borderline personality -- Ryan Prout Eating Spanishness : food globalization and cultural identity in Cruz and Corbacho's Tapas -- Cristina Sánchez-Conejero Solas (Zambrano, 1999) : Andalousian, European, Spanish?-- Sally Faulkner