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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816228303321

Titolo

Toward a multicultural configuration of Spain : local cities, global spaces / / edited by Ana Corbalán and Ellen Mayock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-670-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

307.760946

Soggetti

City and town life - Spain

Cultural pluralism - Spain

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects - Spain

Globalization - Social aspects - Spain

Cultural pluralism in literature

Cultural pluralism in motion pictures

City and town life in literature

City and town life in motion pictures

Spain Social conditions

Spain Intellectual life

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Literary Representations of the Local and the Global; 1 Urban Peripheries: Toward a New Vision of a Multicultural Community in Rosa Montero's Instrucciones para salvar el mundo; 2 "Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco": A/Version of Multiculturalism in Lucía Etxebarria's Cosmofobia; 3 The Sum of Us All: Alternative Images of Madrid in Short Stories by Contemporary Women Writers; 4 City and Community in María Reimóndez's O club da calceta

5 Street, City, and Region as Global Contact Zones: Glocalized Self-Identities and Stereotypes in the Graphic Novel El NordII: Migration, Space, and Tourism in Documentary Films; 6 Immigration and Rhizomatic Itineraries of Resistance in the Global City: Reflections on



two films: Si nos dejan and Raval, Raval; 7 Madrid as a Glocal Enclave in El otro lado: un acercamiento a Lavapiés by Basel Ramsis; 8 Ecuadorian Immigration and the Transformation of Religious and Civic Space in Madrid in La Churona: Historia de una Virgen Migrante by María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa

9 Rural Repopulation and the Fabrication of a Global Village: The Case of AguavivaAnother Look at Immigration; III: Multicultural Encounters in Local Spaces: Cinematic Depictions; 11 Spaces Occupied, Literal and Metaphorical, in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: 1997-2011; 12 The City I Live In: Almodóvar Reshapes Madrid as Spain Goes Glocal; 13 Geography of Capital: Torremolinos, Modernity, and the Art of Consumption in Spanish Film; 14 Immigration and Spanish Subjectivity in No habrá paz para los malvados

15 When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the MillenniumIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This volume foments exploration of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals, economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through the arrival of new residents from around the globe. </span></span>