Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity

2005
388 pages
$63.50
ISBN 0-8387-5583-6
LC 2004059591

Spain Beyond Spain is an exciting and original collection of essays on the literature and culture of Spain.--David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia

Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity is a collection of essays by sixteen specialists in modern Spanish literary and cultural studies from Spain, the United States, and Great Britain. The essays have a common point of origin: a major conference, entitled "España fuera de España: Los espacios de la historia literaria," held in the spring of 2001 at Harvard University. The essays also have a common focus: the fate of literary history in the wake of theory and its attendant programs of inquiry, most notably cultural studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism, women's studies, and transatlantic studies. Their points of arrival, however, vary significantly. What constitutes Spain and what counts as Spanish are primary concerns, subtending related questions of history, literature, nationality, and cultural production. Contributors indluce Luis Beltrán Almería, Brad Epps, James D. Fernández, Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Thomas Harrington, Jon Juaristi, Jo Labanyi, Tom Lewis, Elisa Martí-López, Marina Mayoral, Antonio Monegal, Geraldine Cleary Nichols, Randolph Pope, Joan Ramon Resina, Wadda C. Ríos-Font, Leonardo Romero Tobar, Mario Santana, and Eduardo Subirats. Brad Epps is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of the Committee on Degrees in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University. Luis Fernández Cifuentes is Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.