Toward a multicultural configuration of Spain local cities, global spaces / edited by Ana Corbalán and Ellen Mayock.

Contents Introduction: Spain's local cities and global spaces / Ana Corbalán and Ellen Mayock -- Section I. Literary representations of the local and the global -- Urban peripheries : toward a new vision of a multicultural community in Rosa Montero's Instrucciones para salvar el mundo / Victoria Ketz -- "Una mezcla de amor profundo y asco" : a version of multiculturalism in Lucía Etxebarria's Cosmofobia / Hayley Rabanal -- The sum of all : the image of Madrid in short stories by women writers / María del Carmen Alfonso García -- City and community in O club da calceta by María Reimóndez / Pilar Martínez-Quiroga -- Street, city, and region as global contact zones : glocalized self-identities and stereotypes in the graphic novel El Nord / Raquel Vega-Durán -- Section II. Migration, space, and tourism in documentary films -- Immigration and rhizomatic itineraries of resistance in the global city : reflections on two films: Si nos dejan and Raval, Raval / Megan Saltzman and Javier Entrambaguas -- Madrid as a glocal enclave in el otro lado : Un acercamiento a lavapiés by Basel Ramsis / Alicia Castillo Villanueva -- Migrating virgin : Ecuadorian immigration and the transformation of religious and civic space in Madrid / Maryanne L. Leone -- Rural repopulation and the fabrication of a global village in Spain : the case of Aguaviva / Sohyun Lee -- Another look at immigration : La guerra del golf (The golf war) by Lucía Sánchez / Thomas Deveny -- Section III. Multicultural encounters in local spaces : cinematic depictions -- Spaces occupied, literal and metaphorical, in contemporary Spanish fiction and film : 1997-2011 / Donna Gillespie -- The city I live in : Almodóvar reshapes Madrid as Spain goes glocal / María R. Matz and Carole Salmon -- Geography of capital : Torremolinos, modernity and the art of consumption in Spanish film / William Nichols -- Immigration and Spanish subjectivity in No habrá paz para los malvados / Diana Norton -- When multicultural landscape becomes tragic stage : Spanish film and immigration on the verge of the millennium / Roberto Robles-Valencia -- About the contributors.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2014022021
ISBN9781611476699 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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