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Love, politics and the making of the modern European subject: Spanish Romanticism and the Arab world -- Liberal individualism and the fear of the feminine in Spanish Romantic drama -- Being there: the documentary impulse from Ayguals de Izco to Galdós -- Things in Galdós / Galdós things: use value and exchange value -- Time-space compression and memory in Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta -- The obstinate negativity of Ana Ozores -- Modernity as representation: the self-reflexivity of the Spanish realist novel -- Horror, spectacle, and nation formation: historical painting in late nineteenth-century Spain -- Cinematic city: the Spanish avant-garde, modernity and mass culture -- Women, Asian hordes and the threat to the self in Giménez Caballero's Genio de España -- Political readings of Don Juan and romantic love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s -- The politics of the everyday and the eternity of ruins: two women photographers in republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis 1933-37, Kati Horna, 1937-38) -- Resemanticizing feminine surrender: cross-gender identifications in the writings of Spanish female fascist activists -- Romancing the early Franco regime: the novelas románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares -- Gender and history: Spanish cinema in the early Franco period -- Three nationalist film versions of the Civil War: España heroica (Reig, 1937), Sin novedad en el Alcázar (Genina, 1940), ¡El santuario no se inde! (Ruiz-Castillo, 1949) -- Musical battles: populism and hegemony in the early Francoist Folkloric Film Festival -- Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship -- Fetishism and the problem of sexual difference in Buñuel's Tristana (1970) -- The ghosts of the past and the seductions of psychoanalysis: El desencanto (Jaime Chávarri, 1976) -- Silence, trauma, and abjection: La madre muerta (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1993) -- History and hauntology; or, What does one do with the ghosts of the past? reflections on Spanish film and fiction of the post-Franco period -- Testimonies of repression: methodological and political issues -- The language of silence: historical memory, generational transmission and witnessing in contemporary Spain. This publication "makes available two decades of work by the pioneering scholar of Spanish cultural studies, Jo Labanyi, covering literature, cinema, painting, photography, and memory studies, with a frequent focus on gender. The essays explore the ways in which cultural texts serve as a vehicle for negotiating cultural anxieties, through their encoding of emotional structures that reveal social tensions and contradictions. The discussion of a wide range of Spanish texts, from the early nineteenth-century to the present, traces stages in the history of the emotions and their imbrication in political processes. The essays have in common an attempt to read against the grain; in many cases, the focus on gender is what makes that possible."--Publisher's website
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