Luisa Elena Delgado – författare

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.

The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies.

Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.

The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies.

Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures – Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque – from the eighteenth century to the present.

Engaging critically with the concept of the “national”, Modern Literatures in Spain traces the uneven institutionalization of Spain’s diverse literatures in a context of Castilian literary hegemony, as well as examining diasporic and exile writing . The thematically organized chapters explore literary constructions of subjectivity, gender, and sexuality; urban and rural imaginaries; intersections between high and popular culture; and the formation of a public sphere. Throughout, readings are attentive to the multiple ways in which literature serves as a barometer of cultural responses to historical change.

An introduction to major cultural debates as well as an original analysis of key texts, this book is essential  reading for students and scholars with an interest in the literatures and cultures of Spain.