Rethinking Iberian Studies from the Periphery
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abstract
This volume is an attempt to renew and de-differentiate Iberian studies, focusing on the peripheral as a geographical, cultural and ideological positioning, in order to question the hegemonic optic of the centre and review the pre-existing cultural canons, and their gaps, exclusions and invisibilities. It is a multiple task - carried out from Australia and New Zealand - that includes the study of peripheral cultural forms, both of the so-called historical nationalities absent from the Spanish cultural/literary/linguistic canon, and of other minority groups that have traditionally been displaced to different types of periphery, such as exiles, political prisoners, immigrants, gitanos, the working classes, colonial subjects or sexual minorities, in a global context.
Harka • Dissatisfaction • Representation of homosexuality • Sexual violence • Marta Sanz • Quinqui • Catalonia • Autarchy • Alfredo Landa • Civil War • Catalan crime fiction • Instituto Cervantes • Visual Art • Antonio Murado • Ventas prison • Fil-Hispanic Studies • Culinary nationalism • Spanish regionalisms • Food Studies • Luis Buñuel • Historical novel • Cultural relationships • Galician studies • National mythscape • Philippines • Larra • Rumba vallecana • Middle-class • Spanish Cultural Promotion in Asia • Gendered repression • Postcolonial literary studies • Hispanic food studies • Nacionalflamenquismo • Spanish Cinema • Diferente, No desearás al vecino del quinto • Laberinto de Pasiones • History and fiction • Medieval historical fiction • Pedro Almodóvar • Periphery • Spain • Spanish Transition • Collective memory • Francisco Leiro • Spanish food studies • Mercedes Núñez Targa • Spanish cuisine • Popular fiction • Cool capitalism • ¡A mí la Legión!