Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain

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Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain

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Local Cities, Global Spaces

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Edited by Ana Corbalan, Ellen Mayock, Contributions by Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Javier de Entrambasaguas, Maria del Carmen Alfonso Garcia, Thomas Deveny, Donna Gillespie, Victoria L. Ketz, Sohyun Lee, Maryanne L. Leone
Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 232

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This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping global identities in contemporary Spain. This volume is comprised of twenty essays that examine literary, documentary, and film representations of the multicultural configurations of Spain. All of the essays treat multiculturalism in Spain, focusing on reconfigured Spanish cities and neighborhoods through Latin American, African, and/or Eastern European migrations and cultures. Principal themes of the volume include urban space and access to resources, responses to the economic crisis, emerging family portraits, public versus private spaces, the local and the global, marginalities, migrations, and public expression of human and civil rights. This project examines the intercultural exchange that takes place in recent productions against an imaginary homogeneous Spanish national identity. These films, documentaries, and narratives seek to unsettle the Spanish preconceptions of the "Other(s)." Therefore, these texts construct a hybrid concept of the nation in which perceived national identities can be altered by interactions with other cultures from a broader world. The originality of the work lies in its focus on contemporary Spanish literature, documentaries, and fictional film to foment exploration of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals, economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through the arrival of new residents from across the globe. Some of the essays question the very legitimacy of the term `multiculturalism,' others examine the formation of new communities, and still others explore the changes in religious representations and the environmental effects of the tourist industry. Together, the essays offer a compelling portrait of the changing face of contemporary Spain.

Introduction: Spain's Local Cities and Global Spaces Ana Corbalan and Ellen Mayock SECTION I: Literary Representations of the Local and the Global Chapter 1: Urban Peripheries: Toward a New Vision of a Multicultural Community in Rosa Montero's Instrucciones para salvar el mundo Victoria Ketz Chapter 2: "Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco": A/Version of Multiculturalism in Lucia Etxebarria's Cosmofobia Hayley Rabanal Chapter 3: The Sum of All: The Image of Madrid in Short Stories by Women Writers Maria del Carmen Alfonso Garcia Chapter 4: City and Community in O club da calceta by Maria Reimondez Pilar Martinez-Quiroga Chapter 5: Street, City, and Region as Global Contact Zones: Glocalized Self-Identities and Stereotypes in the Graphic Novel El Nord Raquel Vega-Duran SECTION II: Migration, Space, and Tourism in Documentary Films Chapter 6: Immigration and Rhizomatic Itineraries of Resistance in the Global City: Reflections on two films: Si nos dejan and Raval, Raval Megan Saltzman and Javier Entrambaguas Chapter 7: Madrid as a glocal enclave in El otro lado: un acercamiento a Lavapies by Basel Ramsis Alicia Castillo Villanueva Chapter 8: Migrating Virgin: Ecuadorian Immigration and the Transformation of Religious and Civic Space in Madrid Maryanne L. Leone Chapter 9: Rural Repopulation and the Fabrication of a Global Village in Spain: The Case of Aguaviva Sohyun Lee Chapter 10: Another Look at Immigration: La guerra del golf (The Golf War) Lucia Sanchez Thomas Deveny SECTION III: Multicultural Encounters in Local Spaces: Cinematic Depictions Chapter 11: Spaces Occupied, Literal and Metaphorical, in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: 1997-2011 Donna Gillespie Chapter 12: The City I Live in: Almodovar Reshapes Madrid as Spain Goes Glocal Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon Chapter 13: Geography of Capital: Torremolinos, Modernity and the Art of Consumption in Spanish Film William Nichols Chapter 14: Immigration and Spanish Subjectivity in No habra paz para los malvados Diana Norton Chapter 15: When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the Millennium Roberto Robles-Valencia CONTRIBUTORS

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