Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Luis H. Castañeda, Javier González (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

395 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-9494-4 (ISBN)

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What are Hispanic alternative communities and how are they represented in literature, film, and popular music? This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, youth gangs, musical bands, packs of marginal urban dwellers, groups of immigrants, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, perhaps akin to secret societies plotting to take control of society. These groups usually exist within a larger and established community – typically, the nation-state – though maintaining with it complicated relations of rivalry, criticism, outright violence, and other forms of antagonism. Thus "alternative communities" represent the "other side" of official institutions, by constituting dystopias that condemn the status quo, or by building utopias that point to new social arrangements. In the Hispanic world – a broad, transatlantic space that includes Spain and Spanish America – alternative communities have existed since the 19th century, a time of nation-building for Spanish American countries, all the way to the 21st century, when hybrid, postnational, and cosmopolitan communities begin to appear. The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume, which constitutes the first systematic approach to Hispanic alternative communities, tackle this complex cultural phenomenon from diverse critical perspectives.

Luis H. Castañeda is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. His publications include Comunidades efímeras. Grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XX (2015), as well as a number of critical articles devoted to the fictional representation of authorship in Spanish American and Spanish literature, concentrating on the institutional and political role of (neo)avant-garde aesthetic communities. Javier González is Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University-Channel Islands, USA. His academic research explores the intersections of rock music, literature, and counter-cultural identity in 20th century Latin America. Dr González has published several articles and presented numerous papers related to these topics, and is also interested in Latin American cultural studies, the Latin American graphic novel, philosophy, and jazz.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4438-9494-X / 144389494X
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-9494-4 / 9781443894944
Zustand	Neuware