Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

Crossroads Visions

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de Jesse Barker

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > Spain

Mots Clés

Spain, emotions, perception

Année d'édition

2017

Editeur

Palgrave MacMillan

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 237 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-319-57964-1

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
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.

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