Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South /

A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's Spain.

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Main Author: Kennedy, Brittany Powell (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: constructing Spanish and Southern exceptionality
  • Breathing modern life into the Quijote: Spanish and Southern regeneration in the new century
  • The religion of blood and myth: William Faulkner's and Camilo Jose Cela's modern subjects
  • Fleeing exceptionality in A little red MG: driving through national melancholia
  • Contesting narratives of failed performance: racial identity and national exceptionality
  • Being "bad" and objectified womanhood: transgressive femininity in Spain and the South
  • Exceptionality as leisure: tourism and urban planning in the New South and democratic Spain
  • Conclusion: from tourism to time travel.