Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain

Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received his PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and his BS in civil engineering from UIUC in 1995. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (1900-2015) (2016), supported by a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain. His second book is titled Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (2024). His latest book project, Blind Cinema, which studies films by blind filmmakers, has been awarded an NEH Fellowship.Luisa Elena Delgado was Professor Emerita of Spanish, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasías de la normalidad democrática Española (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernández and Jo Labanyi) Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). In addition, she co-edited with Jo Labanyi Modern Literatures in Spain (2023), co-authored with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper and Mari José Olaziregi.

• In Memoriam: A Tribute to Professor Luisa Elena Delgado (1962-2024)List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIn Memoriam: A Tribute to Elena Delgado (1962–2024) Introduction: A New Look at Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Social, Political and Cultural HistoryPART 1: SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTS1. Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and SpaceSusan Larson2. Urban Landscapes and the Construction of the Commons: Barcelona’s Superblocks and Urban VoidsSara Bartumeus Ferré3. Rural Spain: Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First CenturyLuis Camarero, Jesús Oliva and Rosario Sampedro4. Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants: Housing Activism and the Structures of Democratization and Capitalism in SpainMiguel A. Martínez5. The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 SpainLuis I. Prádanos6. Information Bytes: From Bullfighting to COVID-fighting, How to Live on Planet EarthKata BeilinPART 2: HISTORIES AND NARRATIVES7. Narrating Conflict: The Politics of Historical Memory in SpainSebastiaan Faber8. Representing Loss: Ghosts, Ruins, and Other TracesJo Labanyi9. Buscando al Abuelo (Searching for Grandpa): Unearthing the Lost Bodies and Missing Histories of the Spanish Civil WarDacia Viejo-Rose and Layla Renshaw10. Posing the Question: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Three Shots from the Spanish Civil WarMichael Iarocci11. The Periódico Murales of the Spanish Civil War: Recycled Imprints, Contested Conventions and Shared HistoriesJordana Mendelson12. Transitions, Restorations, Exiles: Assessing the Legacies of the Expelled Second RepublicMari Paz Balibrea13. Terrorism and Peacebuilding Narratives in SpainIoannis Tellidis14. “Evolution Without Revolution”: Perceptions of Rupture and Reconciliation in Spanish and Portuguese DemocratizationManuel Loff15. Acoustic Conflict and the Spanish Far Right During the Transition to DemocracyTom WhittakerPART 3: GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS16. The Contested Nation(s), 1900–2023Xosé M. Núnez Seixas17. Independence as a Political Strategy: A Party Competition Approach to Secessionism in Catalonia and the Basque CountryGemma Sala18. Patriarchy, Power, and Women’s Independence: The Transformation of Marriage and Families in Spain, 1976–2020María José González19. The Catholic Church and Other Institutional Religions: The Long Road from Catholic Monoconfesionalism to Democratic Religious PluralismNatalia Núnez Bargueno20. Schools, Scientific Institutions, and the Spanish “Brain Drain” (1833–2023)Jaume Claret21. Regulatory Policies and Institutions of Contemporary Spanish LanguageMaría Florencia Rizzo22. Prison Abolition in Spain: The Weight of History, the Debate, and the FutureAurélie Vialette23. Sporting Institutions: The Structures of Spanish Sport Across Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesAndrew McFarland24. Football and Politics in Modern Spain: FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Historical ContextAlejandro QuirogaPART 4: BODIES AND IDENTITIES 25. Franco’s Instituto de Estudios Africanos, Spanish Colonial Science, and Local African ResponsesBenita Sampedro Vizcaya26. Boats, Bodies, and Borders: Migration, Dispossession and Patera Literature in SpainN. Michelle Murray27. Racial Others in Spain: The Articulation of Shifting Identities in the Works of Amazigh/Berber-Catalan Writer Saïd El Kadaoui MoussaouiCristián H. Ricci28. Women in the Streets: 8M Feminist Protests in SpainEva Anduiza and Sabina Monza29. Colonial Genderings: Fluid Identities in the MaghrebAdolfo Campoy-Cubillo30. Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in VenenoDean Allbritton31. Motionless: Disability and Snow White in Narratives of the CrisisEmily DiFilippo32. A Civil Death: Homeownership, Migration, and the (Un)Making of Urban SubjectsSophie GonickPART 5: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIVITIES 33. Early 20th-Century Popular Mobilization and Labor Movements in Spain: From the Restoration to the Second RepublicPamela Radcliff34. Chinese Contributions to Spanish Culture: An OverviewJoaquín Beltrán Antolín and Amelia Sáiz LópezTranslated by Linda Grabner35. Muslims and Jews in Contemporary Spain: Returns, Legacies, BelongingsDaniela Flesler36. Made by Punk, Makers of Punk: Spanish Women in the Transition SpaceNuria Triana Toribio37. Narrating Class in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: From Class in Itself to Class for ItselfClass in Itself to Class for Itself David Becerra Mayor38. Social Responses to Material Inequality in Spain (2008–2022)Steven L. Torres39. Broken Promises: Precarity and Affect in Contemporary Spanish Poetry after 2011Carlos Varón GonzálezPART 6: AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES 40. The Atmospherics of Modernity: Flight in the Literary and Popular Imagination in Spain, 1920–1936Juli Highfill41. Auditory Culture in Twentieth-Century Spain: Stereophonic Soundscapes of Modernity, from Print Media to RadioTania Gentic42. Landscape as Event: Geometrics and Geopoetics in Contemporary Spanish CinemaSteven Marsh43. Intimate Worlds, Public Battles: Gender, Agency, and Autonomy in Contemporary Spanish CinemaSarah Thomas44. Algorithms, the Earth, and the Spanish State: The Politics of Making Digital ArtAlex Saum-Pascual45. Performance in Contemporary Times: Processes, Community, and AudienceDavid Rodríguez-Solás46. The Aesthetics of Ephemera: Migrant Subjects and the Unleashing of Place in the Photography of Óscar ParasiegoParvati Nair­­PART 7: CONNECTIONS AND FRACTURES47. Apocalyptic Visions of the Crisis: The Imaginary of the Flood in Contemporary Spanish CultureNatalia Castro Picón48. Ties that Bind: Madrid’s 2011 Protest Camp as a Transversal CommunityJulia Ramírez-Blanco49. Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as CollaborationLeslie J. Harkema50. Spain and the Shifting Limits of “Europe”Luis Martín-Estudillo51. Between Raquel Meller and Rosalía: Popular Spanish Music: (Trans)National and Local NarrativesJulio ArceTranslated by Linda Grabner52. Music’s Mirrors: Identity, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Popular MusicHéctor Fouce and Fernán del ValTranslated by Linda Grabner53. From the Mediterranean Diet to Gastronationalism: Cultural Studies and Spanish FoodwaysRebecca Ingram54. Iberia and the Americas: Hispanism and its (Dis)encountersDiana ArbaizaIndex