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Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture

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Davies A (2012) Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/search/hfclient.isa?A=BOOKSONIX_LUP_BOOKSHOP&F=form&AS=FIND%7CG2%7C&AS2=%7CAND%7CU1%7CA/F&view=wrapper&AS1=9781846318221

Abstract
Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain's varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space and place. Drawing on case studies from contemporary Spanish film and literature, Davies explores the themes of memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration, investigating what it means to think of space and places in specifically Spanish terms.

StatusPublished
Publication date30/04/2012
PublisherLiverpool University Press
Publisher URLhttp://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/…S1=9781846318221
Place of publicationLiverpool
ISBN9781846318221

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Professor Ann Davies

Professor Ann Davies

Emeritus Professor, Spanish