@article{491349,
      recid = {491349},
      author = {Richardson, Nathan E.,},
      title = {Constructing Spain the re-imagination of space and place  in fiction and film, 1953-2003 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Bucknell University Press,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resources (xi, 342 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our  experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves  spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space  and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores  relations between cultural representation and spatial  transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture.  Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially  reopened to Western thought and capital, and culminating in  2003, the year of Aznar's unpopular involvement of his  country in the second Iraq War, Richardson traces in  popular and critically acclaimed fiction and film an  evolution in Spanish storytelling that, while initially  representative in nature, increasingly engages its audience  in spatial practices that go beyond mere perception or  conception of local material geographies.  In original  readings of films by Luis Berlanga, Luis Buñuel, Alex de la  Iglesia, Alejandro Amenábar, and Julio Medem, and novels by  Juan Goytisolo, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Javier Marías,  Richardson shows this formal evolution as a necessary  response to developments, restorations, and transformations  of local landscapes that resulted during these years from  various human migrations, tourist-invasions, urban  development plans, resurgent nationalisms, and finally  globalization. As these changes occur, Richardson traces a  shift in the works studied from mere representation of  spatial change toward actual engagement with shifting  physical and social geographies, as they inch ever closer  toward the production of an actual spatial experience for  their audiences. In the final chapters of this book,  Richardson offers in-depth and highly original readings of  the storytelling projects of Medem and Marías in  particular, showing how these two artists invite readers to  not only reconceive hegemonic notions of space and place,  but to practice alternative notions of being-in-place. In  these final readings, Constructing Spain points to the  newest developments in contemporary Spanish narrative and  film, a rise of new grammars of creation to challenge the  ongoing capital-driven creative destruction of globalized  Spanish geography.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/491349},
}