Postcolonial Spain

Helena Miguélez-Carballeira is Professor in Hispanic Studies at Bangor University, and Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales. Her publications include the book Galicia, a Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics (2013) and the edited volume A Companion to Galician Culture (2014).

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction – Helena Miguélez-CarballeiraOtherness and corporal precarity: on the representation of torture in democratic Spain – Juan AlbarránThe Spanish state of Catalan exception: building the necessity for exceptional rule on Catalan independence – Sergi Auladell FauchsThe persistence of neocolonial logic in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Amador (2010) – Bryan CameronContemporary Majorcan culture and the transnational tourist gaze: colonial dynamics, cultural identity and spatial dispossession – Guillem Colom-MonteroConflict as a place of consensus: the representation of political violence in Twist (2013) by Harkaitz Cano and Martutene (2012) by Ramon Saizarbitoria – Ibon Egaña EtxebarriaPakean Utzi Arte: art and resistance in Basque subaltern memories – Amaia Elizalde Estenaga and Ismael Manterola IspizuaTruncated modernities: Chillida, Tindaya, Fuerteventura – Isaac Marrero-GuillamónThe Spanish rural subject and the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (1939–71): coloniality, biopolitics and memory – Helena Miguélez-CarballeiraHegemonic memory politics and the Basque Nationalist Party: antifascism and the question of violence – Beñat Sarasola SantamariaThe failed panopticon? Architecture, social projects and the problematic notion of ‘model’ in Barcelona’s Presó Model – Aurélie Vialette

This is an excellent collection of essays delving into Spains post-imperial condition from a variety of standpoints, debunking the official narrative of the post-Franco Transition to democracy. A must-read volume for those who have a serious interest in Spains long twentieth century.