Iberismo(s)
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This volume is the result of the debates held at Ca’ Foscari University during the Iberismo(s) study day, aimed at discussing the ethical, theoretical and methodological limits of Iberian Studies and demonstrating their applications. Far from a unidirectional reading, the works gathered here explore the multiple aspects of Iberism, or rather Iberisms: different aspects such as the literary, cultural, economic and political ones are taken into account and interpreted on the basis of their plurality – since the diversity of actors, discourses, and contexts makes it impossible to outline a closed narrative. According to Claudio Guillén, “national literature is […] an institution that is not only insufficient, but also spurious and fraudulent”, hence the commitment to redefine this field of study. Moreover, its analytical perspective is associated with the ‘crisis of Hispanism’ as a ‘uninational’ and monolingual paradigm. Iberian Studies as such do not take root in a simple broadening of the object of research in order to give space – and thus a new location – to the more peripheral realities; it is rather a theoretical and methodological reformulation in constant development, as all the essays in this volume attest.
Sluizer • Iberian Peninsula • Iberism • Modernism • History of the Discipline • Barcelona • Iberisms • Rêverie • Cultural Iberism • Realist Iberism • Editorial Boom • Joan Estelrich • Catalanism • Cinematographic Transposition • Allegory • Eugenio de Castro • Early Francoism • Paratexts • Saramago • Alberto Martín-Artajo • Oliveira Martins • António Ferro • Cultural Studies • Regeneration • Iberian Studies • Emilia Pardo Bazán • Febo Moniz • Unamuno • Hispanism • Women • Carpentier • Portugal • Geração de 70 • Europe • Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Barcelona • Geopolitics • Cartas peninsulares • Iberianism • Literary Theory • Thresholds • Maragall • Spanish crime fiction • Revista Ocidental • Alicia Giménez Bartlett • Decadence • Nationalism • Periphery