Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Yaw Agawu-Kakraba is an associate professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College. A graduate of the University of Ghana! he holds a PhD from Cornell University. He is author of Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes and numerous articles on contemporary Spanish narrative and culture. Klappentext Combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. This study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish. Zusammenfassung Combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. This study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF POSTMODERNITY IN SPAIN CHAPTER I: THE POSTMODERN SELF AND LIFESTYLE IN POSTMODERNITY: THE MOVIDA PHENOMENON CHAPTER II: DESENCANTO WITHIN THE MATRIX OF POSTMODERNITY CHAPTER III: DOWNWARD MOBILITY! DISQUIET! AND NIHILISM: POSTMODERNITY IN SPAIN AT THE EDGE OF THE MILLENNIUM CHAPTER IV: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE ALLEGORICAL PARADIGM OF SPANISH SCIENCE FICTION AND THE POSTMODERNIZED SPANISH CULTURE

Produktdetails

• Autoren: AGAWU KAKRABA YAW, Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, Agawu-Kakraba Yaw
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9780708322710
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2271-0
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Iberian and Latin American Studies; Iberian and Latin American Stu; Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Culture, Cultural Studies, Fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Postmodernity, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature: history and criticism