Constructing identity in contemporary Spain : theoretical debates and cultural practice / edited by Jo Labanyi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Engaging with Ghosts; or, Theorizing Culture in Modern Spain -- Jo Labanyi -- Part I: Ethiidty and Migration -- 2. Travels of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy -- Lou Charnon-Deutsch -- 3. Elusive Song: Flamenco as Field and Passage for the -- Gitanos in Cordoba Prison -- Parvati Nair -- 4. Ethnic and Racial Configurations in Contemporary -- Spanish Culture -- Isabel Santaolalla -- 5. Identities at a Distance: Markers of National Identity in the Video-Diaries of Second-Generation Spanish Migrants in London -- Cristina Mateo -- Part II: Gender -- 6. Melodramatic Feminism: The Popular Fiction of -- Carmen de Burgos -- Anja Louis -- 7. Good Girls go to Heaven: The Venerable Mari Carmen -- Gonzalez-Valerio y Saenz de Heredia (I930-I 939) -- Jessamy Harvey -- 8. Victoria Abril: The Sex Which Is Not One -- Peter William Evans -- 9. Sex, Lies, and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, SA -- Josep-Anton Fernandez -- IO. Not Writing Straight, but Not Writing Queer: Popular -- Castilian 'Gay' Fiction -- Chris Perriam -- Part III: Popular Culture -- 11. Fiesta Culture in Madrid Posters, 1934-I955 -- Deborah Parsons -- 12. Musical Battles: Populism and Hegemony in the Early -- Francoist Folkloric Film Musical -- Jo Labanyi -- 13. Alaska: Star of Stage and Screen and Optimistic Punk -- Mark Allinson -- 14. Bagpipes and Digital Music: The Remixing of Galician Identity -- Xelis de Toro -- Part IV: The Local and the Global -- 15. Uncanny Identity: Violence, Gaze, and Desire in Contemporary Basque Cinema -- Joseba Gabilondo -- 16. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art as Popular Culture -- Xon de Ros -- 17. Barcelona's Magic Mirror: Narcissism or the Rediscovery of Public Space and Collective Identity? -- Antonio Sdnchez -- 18. Spanish Quality TV? The Periodistas Notebook -- Paul Julian Smith.