Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South / / Brittany Powell Kennedy
Pubbl/distr/stampa
Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015
ISBN
1-62674-494-7
Descrizione fisica
1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina
810.9/9750904
Soggetti
Literature and history - Southern States - History - 20th century
Literature and history - Spain - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - Spain - History - 20th century
Comparative literature - American and Spanish
Comparative literature - Spanish and American
Fascism and literature - Southern States - History - 20th century
Fascism and literature - Spain - History - 20th century
Fascism in literature
Racism in literature
Francoism in literature
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.
Nota di contenuto
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.
Sommario/riassunto
A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's Spain
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Record Nr.
UNINA9910689834803321
Titolo
Financial state of the airline industry : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, September 20, 2001