lunes, 18 de julio de 2011
Lope de Vega en la Invención de España
Author: Veronika Ryjik ISBN: 9781855662025
Format: HB Extent: 258 pp.
Price: £60 Publication: July 2011
Publisher: Tamesis (Boydell & Brewer)
La idea de que Lope de Vega proyecta en sus personajes diferentes modos de ser español en su época ha sido un lugar común en la crítica literaria a lo largo de todo el siglo XX. Sin embargo, pocos investigadores han prestado atención a la correlación entre la imagen de España y de los españoles que construye el dramaturgo en sus comedias y el proceso de la formación de una conciencia nacional en la España de principios del siglo XVII.
Este proyecto explora el papel del teatro lopesco en la construcción del 'yo' colectivo nacional. Se analizan la imagen de España y de los españoles creada por Lope mediante una constante manipulación de la historia patria, así como los posibles efectos de la propagación de esta imagen durante el siglo XVII. Dentro de este marco, se examina la manera en que Lope aborda los temas relacionados con ciertos conceptos claves para la elaboración de los supuestos ideales nacionales, como la monarquía, la religión, la jerarquía social y el imperio. Veronica Ryjik es Assistant Professor of Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College.
Franco's Friends
Author: Peter Day ISBN: 9781849540988
Format: HB Extent: 384 pp.
Price: £20 Publication: July 2011
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Falangist uprising in July 2011, Franco’s Friends tells the previously untold tale of MI6’s involvement in the rise of Spanish fascism. It has long been known that a British plane took Franco from the Canaries to Morocco at the start of the coup. What is not known is that the plane was chartered by an MI6 agent, and that British secret services continued working in Spain through to the Second World War, putting together behind-the-scenes deals to ensure the UK’s interests were maintained. Crucially, MI6 even financed bribes paid to the Spanish generals by the British naval attaché in Madrid to keep Spain neutral, thus reaping the benefits for Britain in 1939-45. Franco’s Friends reveals how Britain made a dubious moral choice that would have repercussions on the outcome of the Second World War.
Reconstructing Spain
Author: Dacia Viejo-Rose ISBN: 978-1-84519-435-2
Format: HB Extent: 272 pp.
Price £65 Publication: June 2011
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
This book explores the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict reconstruction, whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation. The research was driven by two main goals: first, to understand the post-conflict reconstruction process in terms of cultural heritage, and second, to identify how this process evolves in the medium term and the impact it has on society. The Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and its subsequent phases of reconstruction provides the primary material for this exploration. In pursuit of the first goal, the book centers on the material practices and rhetorical strategies developed around cultural heritage in post-civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime–s reconstruction
Conquest All Over Again
Author: Susan Schroeder ISBN: 978-1-84519-475-8
Format: PB Extent: 273 pp.
Price: £25 Publication: March 2011
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousand of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form of boosterism, even ingenious intellectualism, or were they ultimately a literature of ruin? This volume seeks to address key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism by examining what they themselves recorded and why they did so.
Tartessian 2
Author: John T. Koch ISBN: 9781907029073
Format: PB Extent: 198 pp.
Price: £19.95 Publication: May 2011
Publisher: Celtic Studies Publications
The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested, the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language, confirming word divisions and contributing to the critical mass of evidence. It is now possible to take the case for Tartessian as an Indo-European and specifically Celtic language a step further, to ask what sort of Celtic language Tartessian was and how its syntax and sound system compares with those of Celtiberian, Gaulish, Old Irish and Welsh.
Comparative Archaeologies
Author: Katina T. Lillios ISBN: 9781935488262
Format: HB Extent: 312 pp.
Price: £40 Publication: March 2011
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Comparative Archaeologies scrutinises current thinking on the dynamics and historical trajectories of complex societies in the American Southwest (AD 900-1500) and the Iberian Peninsula (BC 3000-1500) through a focused comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, Gender and Art. Leading archaeologists from North America and Europe - drawing on diverse intellectual traditions - engage in this innovative form of comparative archaeology, which recognises both the historicities of past societies of similar forms and the social embeddedness of archaeological practice and theory.
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