New Spain, New Literatures
Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, and Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debates in Spain and elsewhere—the emergence of minoritzed literatures, multilingualism and identity, new relationships between culture and institutions, the negotiation of historical memories, the connections between migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the impact of global trends on local symbolic systems.
New Spain, New Literatures, Available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
Contemporary Spanish Literatures: Enduring Plurality
Luis Martin-Estudillo and Nicholas Spandiccini
Part I. New Mappings /New Cartographies
Chapter 1
On Rivers and Maps: Iberian Approaches to Comparatism
Enric Bou
Chapter 2
Peripheral Being, Global Writing: The Location of Basque Literature
Mari Jose Olaziregi
Chapter 3
Galacian Writing and the Poetics of Displacement: Ramiro Fonte's A rocha dos proscritos
Kristy Hooper
Chapter 4
Memory and Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Catalan Theater
Jennifer Duprey
Chapter 5
The New Capital of Spanish Literature: The Best Sellers
Maarten Steenmeijer
Part II.Instiutions and Literatures
Chapter 6
A Hispanist's View of Changing Institutions, or About Insects and Whales
Randolph Pope
Chapter 7
Political Autonomy and Literary Institutionalization in Galicia
Delores Vilavedra
Chapter 8
Tensions in Contemporary Basque Literature
Jon Kortazar
Chapter 9
The Persistence of Memory: Antonio Gamoneda and the Literary Institutions of Late Modernity
Jonathan Mayhew
Part III. Challenging Identities
Chapter 10
The Curse of the Nation. Institutionalized History and Literature in Global Spain
Gonzalo Navajas
Chapter 11
Postmodernism and Spanish Literature
Maria del Pilae Lozano Mijares
Chapter 12
African Voices in Contemporary Spain
Cristián Ricci
Chapter 13
From Literature to Letters: Rethinking Catalan Literary History
Stewart King
Chapter 14
The Space of Politics: Nation, Gender, Language and Class in Esther Tusquets' Narrative
Laura Lonsdale
Afterword
Regarding the Spain of Others: Sociopolitical Framing of New Literatures/Cultures in Democratic Spain
Germán Labrador Méndez