Jo Labanyi
Autor de Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Sobre El Autor
Jo Labanyi is Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 90
- Popularidad
- #205,795
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 25
Multilingualism and porous borders looks at the interplay between writings in Arabic, Basque, Castilian, Catalan and Galician from the Middle Ages to present-day regional autonomy, but also at the place of Spanish literature within the supranational medieval categories of Romance and Arabic literature, and makes it clear that all these categories are more fluid and less self-contained than we like to assume. Spanish literature and modernity looks at the political context of Spain from the Golden Age to the post-Franco period and how writers engaged with it. Gender and sexuality looks at writing by and about women and LGBT+ people, and finally Cultural patrimony goes in a slightly less predictable direction, investigating the Spanish approach to literary museums, shrines, and the ever-flourishing Cervantes-Industry.
Labanyi's chief field of interest seems to be in 20th century literature, so we get a lot more about Goytisolo (star of at least two chapters) than about Quevedo and Tirso de Molina, but she tells us enough about the 17th century to give us a reasonable feel for what to look out for, and she picks up some interesting topics like the importance of female-to-male cross-dressing on stage and the unexpectedly subversive nature of some of Teresa of Avila's writings.
Not the only book you'll need to read about Spanish literature, but it does what it's supposed to and it probably undermines a few preconceptions along the way too.… (más)