Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

Description

"Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" is a compelling study that combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. Marking a sweeping reposition from earlier works about postmodernity and postmodernism in Spain, "Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" makes a strong connection between postmodernity as social and economic conditions that are the result of unique features of a Spain of the 20th and 21st century, and postmodernism as life-style experiences that manifest new cultural and artistic practices of the 1980s and beyond. The study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish (the movida, desencanto, immigration, globalization, and terrorism) and concludes that by virtue of Spain's unique socio-cultural, economic, and political history, not only does the country emerge as one of the most postmodern of all European nations but also that the conditions that define the country's evolution from the mid 1980s to the present constitute a distinctively authentic postmodernity.
INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF POSTMODERNITY IN SPAIN CHAPTER I: THE POSTMODERN SELF AND LIFESTYLE IN POSTMODERNITY: THE MOVIDA PHENOMENON CHAPTER II: DESENCANTO WITHIN THE MATRIX OF POSTMODERNITY CHAPTER III: DOWNWARD MOBILITY, DISQUIET, AND NIHILISM: POSTMODERNITY IN SPAIN AT THE EDGE OF THE MILLENNIUM CHAPTER IV: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE ALLEGORICAL PARADIGM OF SPANISH SCIENCE FICTION AND THE POSTMODERNIZED SPANISH CULTURE

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Spanish
• Spain
• Portuguese
• Spain (groupe)
• European

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708322727
• Langue: English

Extrait

Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

University of Wales Press

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture

Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Laura Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture

YAW AGAWU-KAKRABA

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2010

© Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, 2010

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Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Theoretical Exploration of Postmodernity in Spain Chapter 1: The Postmodern Self and Lifestyle under Postmodernity: theMovidaPhenomenon Chapter 2:DesencantoWithin the Matrix of Postmodernity Chapter 3: Downward Mobility, Disquiet and Nihilism: Postmodernity in Spain at the Edge of the Millennium Chapter 4: Where Do We Go From Here? The Allegorical Paradigm of Spanish Science Fiction and the Postmodernized Spanish Culture Notes Works Cited Index

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Series

Editors’

Foreword

Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superceded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa. In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disci- plinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.