Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film
Crossroads Visions
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About This Book
This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotionârather than identityâas the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of intersubjectivity, confronting ideals of affective immersion and cultural nomadism with the concrete contexts that shape particular lives and social formations. This confrontation underlies a series of 'crossroads', or productive engagements, that guide the book's five main chapters: locally rooted identity and global cultural circuits; historical contexts and universal modes of being; personal authenticity and consumer culture; migration and cultural identity; Spain's historical underdevelopment and impending future crises. All of these issues make affective connection and attachment the greatest existential challenge facing individuals and collectives in the contemporary world, both in Spain and elsewhere.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: Spanish CrossroadsâAffect and Belonging in the Democratic Era
- 2 No Place Like Home: Gabi MartĂnezâs Ătico (Top-Floor Apartment) and Javier Calvoâs âUna Belleza Rusaâ (A Russian Beauty)
- 3 History and Trauma at the Crossroads: Guillermo del Toroâs El laberinto del fauno (Panâs Labyrinth) and Isabel Coixetâs The Secret Life of Words
- 4 Synthetic Skins: Mercedes CebriĂĄnâs La nueva taxidermia (The New Taxidermy) and Pedro AlmodĂłvarâs La piel que habito (The Skin I Live in)
- 5 Unraveling Cultures: Alejandro GonzĂĄlez Iñårrituâs Biutiful and Najat El Hachmiâs Lâultim patriarca (The Last Patriarch)
- 6 Unsheltered: Pablo Bergerâs Blancanieves (Snow White) and JesĂșs Carrascoâs Intemperie (Out in the Open)
- Conclusion: BelongingâThe Ecology of the Self
- Bibliography
- Index