Reading Iberia

The Editors: Helena Buffery is a lecturer in Spanish and Catalan at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are in Catalan Studies, Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Theatre and Performance and Translation Studies. She has published widely in these fields and is the author of Shakespeare in Catalan: Translation Imperialism (2007). Stuart Davis is a lecturer in Spanish at Girton and Clare Colleges, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer in the University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He has published on the Spanish literary canon, Juan Goytisolo, Jorge Luis Borges, the ‘Generación X’ and is currently working on a book on Contemporary Hispanic Writing and the Hispanic Canon. Kirsty Hooper is a lecturer in Spanish and Galician at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on modern and contemporary Galician and Spanish cultural studies; in 2006 she edited a special Galician Studies issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and her book on the Galician expatriate writer Sofia Casanova is forthcoming.

Contents: Helena Buffery/Stuart Davis/Kirsty Hooper: Introduction - Helena Buffery: The RAT Trap?: The Politics of Translating Iberia - José Luis Bellón: Bourdieu's Field and the Critical Minefield of the 1898 Generation - Stuart Davis: Que(e)rying Spain: On the Limits and Possibilities of Queer Theory in Hispanism - Andrew Ginger: The Modern Moment: The Dawn of Cultural Modernity in Spain - Helena López: A Memory Studies approach to post-Spanish Civil War exile: the case of Mujeres Libres - Kirsty Hooper: New Cartographies in Galician Studies: From Literary Nationalism to Postnational Readings - Carmen Ramos Villar: Anthologies and Azorean literature: the Construction of an Azorean identity - Laura Lonsdale: Feminism and Form: Reading for Ambiguity in Esther Tusquets' El mismo mar de todos los veranos - Claire Williams: The Princess and the Critic: Debates about 'literatura light' in Portugal - Nerea Arruti: Beyond the Guggenheim: Location, Perspective and Field in Basque Studies - Kathryn Crameri: Reading Iberias: Teaching and Researching the 'Other Cultures' of Spain.