Description
Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.
Trade Review“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 ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of Spanish
Chapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 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 language
Section 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the Hispanic
Chapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish World
Chapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?
Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybridity
Section 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and Consumption
Chapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin Americanism
Chapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary Fiction
Chapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in Cuba
Chapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American Cinema
Section 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century Spain
Chapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, Peru
Chapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican
Trans: Frank Báez’s Global Poetics
Chapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of Embodiment
List of Contributors
