Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her books include (ed. with Lou Charnon-Deutsch) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (1995), (ed. with Helen Graham) Spanish Cultural Studies (1995), and Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000), all published by Oxford University Press.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. ENGAGING WITH GHOSTS; OR, THEORIZING CULTURE IN MODERN SPAIN ; 2. TRAVELS OF THE IMAGINARY SPANISH GYPSY ; 3. Elusive Song: Flamenco as Field and Passage for the Gitanos in Cordoba Prison ; 4. Parvati Nair 4. Ethnic and Racial Configurations in Contemporary Spanish Culture ; 5. Identities as a Distance: Markers of National Identity in the Video-Diaries of Second-Generation Spanish Migrants in London ; 6. MELODRAMATIC FEMINISM: THE POPULAR FICTION OF CARMEN DE BURGOS ; 7. Authoritarian Medicalization and Gynaephobia under Franco ; 8. Victoria Abril: The Sex Which Is Not One ; 9. Sex, Lies and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, S. A. ; 10. Not Writing Straight, but Not Writing Queer: Popular Castilian 'Gay' Fiction ; 11. FIESTA CULTURE IN MADRID POSTERS, 1934-1955 ; 12. Musical Battles: Populism and Hegemony in the Early Francoist Folkloric Film Musical ; 13. Alaska: Star of Stage and Screen and Optimistic Punk ; 14. Bagpipes and Digital Music: The Re-Mixing of Galician Identity ; 15. UNCANNY IDENTITY: VIOLENCE, GAZE, AND DESIRE IN CONTEMPORARY BASQUE CINEMA ; 16. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art as Popular Culture ; 17. Barcelona's Magic Mirror: Narcissism or the Rediscovery of Public Space and Collective Identity? ; 18. Spanish Quality TV? The Periodistas Notebook ; INDEX

This provocative collection of essays will, one hopes, engender additional debate on Iberian identity, modern culture, and the theories informing our interpretation of contemporary Spain.