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Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain - Local Cities, Global Spaces (Hardcover)
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Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain - Local Cities, Global Spaces (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are
shaping global identities in contemporary Spain. This volume is
comprised of twenty essays that examine literary, documentary, and
film representations of the multicultural configurations of Spain.
All of the essays treat multiculturalism in Spain, focusing on
reconfigured Spanish cities and neighborhoods through Latin
American, African, and/or Eastern European migrations and cultures.
Principal themes of the volume include urban space and access to
resources, responses to the economic crisis, emerging family
portraits, public versus private spaces, the local and the global,
marginalities, migrations, and public expression of human and civil
rights. This project examines the intercultural exchange that takes
place in recent productions against an imaginary homogeneous
Spanish national identity. These films, documentaries, and
narratives seek to unsettle the Spanish preconceptions of the
"Other(s)." Therefore, these texts construct a hybrid concept of
the nation in which perceived national identities can be altered by
interactions with other cultures from a broader world. The
originality of the work lies in its focus on contemporary Spanish
literature, documentaries, and fictional film to foment exploration
of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing
transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals,
economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through
the arrival of new residents from across the globe. Some of the
essays question the very legitimacy of the term 'multiculturalism,'
others examine the formation of new communities, and still others
explore the changes in religious representations and the
environmental effects of the tourist industry. Together, the essays
offer a compelling portrait of the changing face of contemporary
Spain.
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