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.

Introduction
Contemporary Spanish Literatures: Enduring Plurality
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini

Part I. New Mappings/ New Cartographies

1. On Rivers and Maps: Iberian Approaches to Comparatism
   Enric Bou
2. Peripheral Being, Global Writing: The Location of Basque Literature
   Mari Jose Olaziregi
3. Galician Writing and The Poetics of Displacement: Ramiro Fonte’s A rocha dos proscritos
   Kirsty Hooper
4. Memory and Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Catalan Theater
   Jennifer Duprey
5. The New Capital of Spanish Literature: The Best Sellers
   Maarten Steenmeijer

Part II. Institutions and Literatures

1. A Hispanist’s View of Changing Institutions, or About Insects and Whales
   Randolph Pope
2. Political Autonomy and Literary Institutionalization in Galicia
   Dolores Vilavedra
3. Tensions in Contemporary Basque Literature
   Jon Kortazar
4. The Persistence of Memory: Antonio Gamoneda and the Literary Institutions of Late Modernity
   Jonathan Mayhew

Part III. Challenging Identities

1. The Curse of the Nation. Institutionalized History and Literature in Global Spain
   Gonzalo Navajas
2. Postmodernism and Spanish Literature
   María del Pilar Lozano Mijares
3. African Voices in Contemporary Spain
   Cristián Ricci
4. From Literature to Letters: Rethinking Catalan Literary History
   Stewart King
5. 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