Overview
- Offers a broad overview and interpretation of twenty-first century Spanish fiction and film
- Weaves together a diverse range of fiction and films and also draws on some of the most significant lines of investigation in the area of contemporary Spanish culture: transnational culture, collaborative cultures in the digital age, spatial and urban analysis, historical memory, gender identities, and the immigration boom
- Employs affect theory along with a range of other frameworks for understanding intersubjectivity, such as psychological attachment theory, third wave feminist analysis, and Buddhist Mindfulness concepts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotion—rather than identity—as the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of intersubjectivity, confronting ideals of affective immersion and cultural nomadism with the concrete contexts that shape particular lives and social formations. This confrontation underlies a series of ‘crossroads’, or productive engagements, that guide the book’s five main chapters: locally rooted identity and global cultural circuits; historical contexts and universal modes of being; personal authenticity and consumer culture; migration and cultural identity; Spain's historical underdevelopment and impending future crises. All of these issues make affective connection and attachment the greatest existential challenge facing individuals and collectives in the contemporary world, both in Spain and elsewhere.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jesse Barker is Lecturer of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. This book is the culmination of a research project that has produced numerous conference presentations and panels, as well as articles in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film
Book Subtitle: Crossroads Visions
Authors: Jesse Barker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58969-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57964-1Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10423-8Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58969-5Published: 24 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Cinema and TV, European Literature, European Culture, Close Reading, Cultural Heritage