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

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's Spain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher 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. Fascism and literature Fascism in literature Francoism in literature Literature and history Politics and literature Racism in literature Southern States Spain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2014038085 ISBN 9781626744905 1626744904

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