Postmodernity In Spanish Fiction And Culture
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Postmodernity In Spanish Fiction And Culture
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Author : Yaw Agawu-Kakraba
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Postmodernity In Spanish Fiction And Culture written by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
"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 emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. Marking a sweeping reposition from earlier works about postmodernity and postmodernism in Spain, "Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" makes a strong connection between postmodernity as social and economic conditions that are the result of unique features of a Spain of the 20th and 21st century, and postmodernism as life-style experiences that manifest new cultural and artistic practices of the 1980s and beyond. The study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish (the movida, desencanto, immigration, globalization, and terrorism) and concludes that by virtue of Spain's unique socio-cultural, economic, and political history, not only does the country emerge as one of the most postmodern of all European nations but also that the conditions that define the country's evolution from the mid 1980s to the present constitute a distinctively authentic postmodernity.
Postmodern Spain
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Author : Antonio Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Postmodern Spain written by Antonio Sánchez and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Postmodern Spain examines the cultural transformation experienced by Spanish society during the late 1980s and 1990s. By looking at specific aspects of culture, the representation of the human subject, the past, and the transformation of the city this book critically re-assesses the validity of postmodernism in Spain. Focusing on the novels written by Juan Goytisolo during this period this book examines the representation and development of the human subject and its identification with the marginalized 'other(s)'. It further analyses various representations of the Spanish Civil War, challenging the prevalent view of post-Franco Spain as suffering from amnesia, and thereby vindicates postmodern historical representations as a valid dialogue with the past. The third chapter examines Barcelona's urban redevelopment, analysing the transformation effected in some of its popular sites as a postmodern re-formulation of the city as a fluid, flexible public space. Finally it brings its previous findings to bear on an analysis of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. It argues that these celebrations constituted a performance of Spain's 'new' cultural identity designed for global, national and local consumption. Thus, these cultural celebrations corroborated the emergence of postmodernism as a cultural dominant which has exceeded modern and pre-modern cultural practices while, paradoxically, containing and enhancing both.
Latin America Writes Back
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Author : Emil Volek
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Latin America Writes Back written by Emil Volek and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses about postmodernity have overwhelmingly been constructed by European and American intellectuals. This book is a groundbreaking collection of essays by Latin American scholars on the theories and practices of postmodernity. It provides an important forum for Latin American intellectuals to shape the debates on postmodernity that are based, to a large degree, on their own cultural and political experiences. Gathering together new and classic essays across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, this much-needed collection allows some of Latin America's leading cultural critics to write back to their Euro-American counterparts and join the international debate.
Con Fusing Signs And Postmodern Positions
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Author : Robert Neustadt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-12
Con Fusing Signs And Postmodern Positions written by Robert Neustadt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Spanish Fiction In The Digital Age
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Author : C. Henseler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-24
Spanish Fiction In The Digital Age written by C. Henseler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-24 with Social Science categories.
This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces.
Hybrid Identity And The Utopian Impulse In The Postmodern Spanish American Comic Novel
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Author : Paul R. McAleer
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Hybrid Identity And The Utopian Impulse In The Postmodern Spanish American Comic Novel written by Paul R. McAleer and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.
Crime Fiction And National Identities In The Global Age
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Author : Julie H. Kim
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Crime Fiction And National Identities In The Global Age written by Julie H. Kim and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor. More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.
Postmodernism S Role In Latin American Literature
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Author : H. Weldt-Basson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-06-21
Postmodernism S Role In Latin American Literature written by H. Weldt-Basson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars reflecting upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author s literary production and his place in world literature. The volume includes articles on the author s screenplays, his masterpiece, the dictator novel I The Supreme, his short stories, feminist approaches to Roa Bastos s novels, reflections on the writer s Guarani poetry, and a study of the complex, intertextual relationships between his novel El fiscal and his other texts.
Postmodernity And Cross Culturalism
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Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2002
Postmodernity And Cross Culturalism written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Whereas the text of modernity thrived on its rhythms, symbols, and representations of beauty, and above all on its impersonality, postmodernity in the late decades of the twentieth century sought relationships outside the text - those between literature and history, philosophy, psychology, society, and culture. The exploration of such relationships is literary to postmodernity as it is ancillary to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Postmodern Fuentes
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Author : Chalene Helmuth
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1997
The Postmodern Fuentes written by Chalene Helmuth and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This book addresses issues of identity, textual composition, discourse, and history in the later novels of Carlos Fuentes." "Readers familiar with other postmodern narratives will find a guide to reading Fuentes, a recognized innovator of Spanish American fiction. To readers familiar with the novels of the Boom and its considerable scholarship, this study provides a key to understanding Fuentes's interest in questions of an epistemological and ontological nature. This process draws on the various interpretive strategies of postmodernity, resulting in an analysis that contributes both to the body of criticism on Carlos Fuentes, and to the development of an accurate conceptualization of postmodern writing in Spanish America."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved