Transnational Spanish Studies

Catherine Davies is a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies and the former Director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Rory O’Bryen is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge.

“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

• Table of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors