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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255095303321

Autore

Barker Jesse

Titolo

Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film [[electronic resource] ] : Crossroads Visions / / by Jesse Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-58969-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 226 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

791.43094

Soggetti

Motion pictures—European influences

European literature

Ethnology—Europe

Motion pictures

Cultural heritage

European Cinema and TV

European Literature

European Culture

Close Reading

Cultural Heritage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotion—rather than identity—as the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of intersubjectivity, confronting ideals of affective immersion and cultural nomadism with the concrete contexts that shape particular lives and social formations. This confrontation underlies a series of ‘crossroads’, or productive engagements, that guide the book’s five main chapters: locally rooted identity and global cultural circuits; historical contexts and universal



modes of being; personal authenticity and consumer culture; migration and cultural identity; Spain's historical underdevelopment and impending future crises. All of these issues make affective connection and attachment the greatest existential challenge facing individuals and collectives in the contemporary world, both in Spain and elsewhere.