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

• Autore: Kennedy Brittany Powell
• Pubblicazione: Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/9750904
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Between distant modernities
• ISBN: 1-62674-494-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825071103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II