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Kennedy, Brittany Powell,

Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South / Brittany Powell Kennedy. - 1 online resource (237 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.

Introduction: constructing Spanish and Southern exceptionality -- Breathing modern life into the Quijote: Spanish and Southern regeneration in the new century -- The religion of blood and myth: William Faulkner's and Camilo Jose Cela's modern subjects -- Fleeing exceptionality in A little red MG: driving through national melancholia -- Contesting narratives of failed performance: racial identity and national exceptionality -- Being "bad" and objectified womanhood: transgressive femininity in Spain and the South -- Exceptionality as leisure: tourism and urban planning in the New South and democratic Spain -- Conclusion: from tourism to time travel.

9781626744943 (e-book)


Literature and history--History--Southern States--20th century.
Literature and history--History--Spain--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--Spain--20th century.
Comparative literature--American and Spanish.
Comparative literature--Spanish and American.
Fascism and literature--History--Southern States--20th century.
Fascism and literature--History--Spain--20th century.
Fascism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Francoism in literature.


Electronic books.

PS261 / .K35 2015eb

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