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Between Distant Modernities: Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South

Between Distant Modernities: Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South

Kennedy, Brittany Powell

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1496820312
ISBN13: 9781496820310
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Nov 12 2018
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional other within US and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national selfhood. Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation with modernization, and they retained a sense of defeat. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this paradox not simply to compare two apparently similar cultures but to reveal how we construct difference around this self/other dichotomy. She charts a transatlantic link between two cultures whose performances of otherness as assertions of selfhood enact and subvert their claims to exceptionality. Perhaps the greatest example of this transatlantic link remains the War of 1898, when the South tried to extract itself from but was implicated in US imperial expansion and nation-building. Simultaneously, the South participated in the end of Spain as an imperial power.

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