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.
Galician studies • Ventas prison • Luis Buñuel • Catalan crime fiction • National mythscape • Spanish regionalisms • Pedro Almodóvar • Diferente, No desearás al vecino del quinto • Quinqui • Hispanic food studies • Popular fiction • Cool capitalism • Spanish Cultural Promotion in Asia • Historical novel • Collective memory • Spanish cuisine • Philippines • Francisco Leiro • Periphery • Visual Art • Catalonia • Marta Sanz • Representation of homosexuality • Autarchy • Antonio Murado • Spain • Spanish food studies • Instituto Cervantes • Food Studies • Postcolonial literary studies • Larra • Fil-Hispanic Studies • Mercedes Núñez Targa • Laberinto de Pasiones • Spanish Transition • Medieval historical fiction • Rumba vallecana • Sexual violence • Middle-class • History and fiction • Gendered repression • Harka • Nacionalflamenquismo • Dissatisfaction • ¡A mí la Legión! • Civil War • Culinary nationalism • Alfredo Landa • Spanish Cinema • Cultural relationships