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The Family Album. Histories, Subjectivities, and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture.
Yeon-Soo Kim
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Description for The Family Album. Histories, Subjectivities, and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture.
Hardback. This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range ... Read more
This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482270
SKU
V9781611482270
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About Yeon-Soo Kim
Yeon-Soo Kim is assistant professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.
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