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Configuring community : theories, narratives, and practices of community identities in contemporary Spain / by Parvati Nair.
- Title
- Configuring community : theories, narratives, and practices of community identities in contemporary Spain / by Parvati Nair.
- Author
- Nair, Parvati
- Publication
- Leeds : Maney Pub. for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2004.
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- Description
- 185 p., 22 p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The concept of community has become central to constructions of Spanish identities, since the Transition to democracy. Contemporary Spain witnesses a political, social, and economic resurgence of community, which both cuts across and is prioritized over nation. Yet, few studies of contemporary Spanish culture deal with this concept. This book aims, therefore, to fill a gap in Spanish cultural studies by providing an in-depth analysis of the intersections of theories, narratives and concepts of community identities across a broad range of media. Literature, film, music, and photography are analysed here in order to explore the diverse means by which community is imagined and constructed. This is a strongly interdisciplinary study, bringing together cultural studies and ethnography. The specific 'texts' that are analysed are located within a larger framework provided by Spain's involvement in processes of globalization. Unusual in this study, therefore, is the use of fieldwork and interview, as well as the application of the work of cultural theorists to the Spanish context." "This book, thus, extends the field of Spanish cultural studies through its original and deliberate examination of community; it is equally relevant to a more general reading public, interested in the diverse media covered here." "By the same token, this book is of relevance to scholars in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, through its exploration and application of the ideas of theorists of modernity, space, and time."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- MHRA texts and dissertations ; v. 61
- Uniform Title
- Texts and dissertations v. 61.
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- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--London Guildhall University, 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Community theorized -- Ch. 2. The aesthetics of memory : community, temporality, and history in the work of Julio Llamazares -- Ch. 3. Temporal mosaics : juggling community, narrative fragments, and postmodernity in the work of Bernardo Atxaga -- Ch. 4. Community, ethnicity, and border crossings in Alma gitana (Chus Gutierrez, 1995) -- Ch. 5. The Cordoba Prison Project : travel, contingency, and community through Flamenco -- Ch. 6. Moving pictures : community, plurality, and relocation in photographs of North-African immigrants in Barcelona -- Afterword : community and reflexivity.
- ISBN
- 1904350143 (pbk.)
- 9781904350149 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 56644833
- SCSB-11020596
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library