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Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture book cover

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Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture

Edited By Jennifer Smith, Lisa Nalbone Copyright 2017
224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and nation in the formation of the fin-de-siècle Spanish and Spanish colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on gender, social class, race, and national identity few studies have focused on how these categories interacted, frequently operating simultaneously to reveal contexts in which dominated groups were... Read more

CONTENTS

Introduction: Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-Siècle Spain

Jennifer Smith and Lisa Nalbone

PART I TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS

1. Challenging Pasts, Exploring Futures: "Race," Gender, and Class in the Fin-de-siècle Essays of Rosario de Acuña, Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, and Belén Sárraga
Christine Arkinstall

2. Domesticating Cuba: Romantic Liaisons and Imperial Power in Spanish Zarzuela
Mar Soria

3. Racism in "Yankilandia": Emilia Pardo Bazán and the Global Color Line
Christy Presson Shaughnessy

PART II RACIAL RECUPERATION AND RACIAL OTHERNESS

4. Racial Identity, Social Critique, and Class Dynamics in Pardo Bazán’s Una prueba-La Cristiana and El becerro de metal
Maryellen Bieder

5. Good and Bad Fusion in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s El becerro de metal (1906)
Margot Versteeg

6. "Playing Japanese" in Fin-de-siècle Zarzuela
David R. George, Jr.

PART III. SPANISH NATIONAL IDENTITIES

7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Nation in Galdós’s Early Historical Fiction
Toni Dorca

8. Realism, Fantasy, and the Gendered Trope of Colonial Relations in Galdós’s Fiction
Mary Coffey

9. Rewriting Carmen in Pardo Bazán’s Insolación: Subversions of "Race," Gender, and Class
Carmen Pereira-Muro, Translation by Holly Villines

Biography

Jennifer Smith is Associate Professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

Lisa Nalbone is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Central Florida, USA.

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