The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive
geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as
Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over
time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and
religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic,
Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars,
huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history
makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial
one long before we witness its various national cultures being
refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated
with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise
today was 'transnational' long before it was ever the foundation of
a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent
post-national, translingual and inter-subjective 'border-crossings'
that characterise the global world today with an eye to their
unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the
Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the
contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic
inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in
literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors:
Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen
Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel
Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta
Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernandez Adrian, Henriette Partzsch, Helen
Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.
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