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