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Author Kennedy, Brittany Powell, author.

Title Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South / Brittany Powell Kennedy.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.
Contents 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Literature and history -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and history -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Comparative literature -- American and Spanish.
Comparative literature -- Spanish and American.
Fascism and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Fascism and literature -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Fascism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Francoism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kennedy, Brittany Powell. Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 ix, 225 pages ; 24 cm 9781628461978
ISBN 9781628461978 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781626744943 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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