Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice. Edited by Jo LABANYI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiv+343 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815994-3 (pbk).

Jo Labanyi has edited, superbly, an invigorating and original book. She has organized eighteen essays around four main sections--Ethnicity and Migration, Gender, Popular Culture, The Local and the Global--and has provided a thoughtful 'Editor's Introduction' to each section. Here, she grapples with the theoretical constructs that inform each individual contributor's work, preparing the reader for a discussion of the main issues raised in each discrete essay. Her set-ups are informed, well written, and useful. Before everything, however, she positions a sustained introduction called 'Engaging with Ghosts; or, Theorizing Culture in Modern Spain',...

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