Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction1: Jo Labanyi: Engaging with Ghosts; or, Theorizing Culture in Modern Spain
I. Ethnicity and Migration2: Lou Charnon-Deutsch: Travels of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy
3: Parvati Nair: Elusive Song: Flamenco as Field and Passage for the Gitanos in Córdoba Prison
4: Isabel Santaolalla: Parvati Nair 4. Ethnic and Racial Configurations in Contemporary Spanish Culture
5: Cristina Mateo: Identities as a Distance: Markers of National Identity in the Video-Diaries of Second-Generation Spanish Migrants in London
II. Gender6: Anja Louis: Melodramatic Feminism: The Popular Fiction of Carmen de Burgos
7: Timothy Mitchell: Authoritarian Medicalization and Gynæphobia under Franco
8: Peter William Evans: Victoria Abril: The Sex Which Is Not One
9: Josep-Anton Fernàndez: Sex, Lies and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, S. A.
10: Chris Perriam: Not Writing Straight, but Not Writing Queer: Popular Castilian 'Gay' Fiction
Part III Popular Culture11: Deborah Parsons: Fiesta Culture in Madrid Posters, 1934-1955
12: Jo Labanyi: Musical Battles: Populism and Hegemony in the Early Francoist Folkloric Film Musical
13: Mark Allinson: Alaska: Star of Stage and Screen and Optimistic Punk
14: Xelís de Toro: Bagpipes and Digital Music: The Re-Mixing of Galician Identity
IV. The Local and the Global15: Joseba Gabilondo: Uncanny Identity: Violence, Gaze, and Desire in Contemporary Basque Cinema
16: Xon de Ros: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art as Popular Culture
17: Antonio Sánchez: Barcelona's Magic Mirror: Narcissism or the Rediscovery of Public Space and Collective Identity?
18: Paul Julian Smith: Spanish Quality TV? The Periodistas Notebook
Index

About the Author

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her books include (ed. with Lou Charnon-Deutsch) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (1995), (ed. with Helen Graham) Spanish Cultural Studies (1995), and Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000), all published by Oxford University Press.

Reviews

Each chapter has a concise and useful bibliogrpahy, and the volume is well indexed. Bulletin of Spanish Studies The differing contributions have been woven together to produce a harmonious, informative and eminently enjoyable volume ... it should prove an invaluable tool to teachers in schools who will find themselves well rewarded when looking for an update on any of the various topics covered. Vida Hispanica