Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain

Ana Corbalán is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama.Ellen Mayock is Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University.

• Introduction: Spain’s Local Cities and Global Spaces Ana Corbalán and Ellen MayockSECTION I: Literary Representations of the Local and the GlobalChapter 1: Urban Peripheries: Toward a New Vision of a Multicultural Community in Rosa Montero’s Instrucciones para salvar el mundoVictoria KetzChapter 2: “Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco”: A/Version of Multiculturalism in Lucía Etxebarria’s Cosmofobia Hayley RabanalChapter 3: The Sum of All: The Image of Madrid in Short Stories by Women Writers María del Carmen Alfonso GarcíaChapter 4: City and Community in O club da calceta by María Reimóndez Pilar Martínez-Quiroga Chapter 5: Street, City, and Region as Global Contact Zones: Glocalized Self-Identities and Stereotypes in the Graphic Novel El NordRaquel Vega-Durán SECTION II: Migration, Space, and Tourism in Documentary FilmsChapter 6: Immigration and Rhizomatic Itineraries of Resistance in the Global City: Reflections on two films: Si nos dejan and Raval, RavalMegan Saltzman and Javier Entrambaguas Chapter 7: Madrid as a glocal enclave in El otro lado: un acercamiento a Lavapiés by Basel Ramsis Alicia Castillo Villanueva Chapter 8: Migrating Virgin: Ecuadorian Immigration and the Transformation of Religious and Civic Space in Madrid Maryanne L. Leone Chapter 9: Rural Repopulation and the Fabrication of a Global Village in Spain: The Case of Aguaviva Sohyun Lee Chapter 10: Another Look at Immigration: La guerra del golf (The Golf War) Lucía Sánchez Thomas Deveny SECTION III: Multicultural Encounters in Local Spaces: Cinematic DepictionsChapter 11: Spaces Occupied, Literal and Metaphorical, in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: 1997-2011 Donna Gillespie Chapter 12: The City I Live in: Almodóvar Reshapes Madrid as Spain Goes Glocal María R. Matz and Carole Salmon Chapter 13: Geography of Capital: Torremolinos, Modernity and the Art of Consumption in Spanish Film William Nichols Chapter 14: Immigration and Spanish Subjectivity in No habrá paz para los malvadosDiana Norton Chapter 15: When Multicultural Landscape Becomes Tragic Stage: Spanish Film and Immigration on the Verge of the Millennium Roberto Robles-Valencia CONTRIBUTORS

[The volume is] helpful in thinking about contemporary Spain but above all to inspire an interest in what's coming next. The future of this multicultural setting is an important chapter in the country's history, one that should be written with care and attention, paying attention to the conditions and situations that these trials suggest that, under the guidance of the editors, they have already detected major obstacles that must be overcome.