Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice

by Jo Labanyi (Editor)

This volume is designed to further the study of Spanish culture in the broad sense of the network of symbolic systems through which social groups construct and negotiate a sense of identity or identities. The aim is to introduce readers to current theoretical debates in a range of disciplines, as well as to inform them about specific areas of twentieth-century Spanish culture.

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2002

About the author

Josephine Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University.

Reviews

[Leanne Hoffmann]

Read parts of this book for a Mediterranean anthropology class I took a few years ago. Think it would be good to read previous to a trip to Spain--which I hope to take in the next few years.