Author Bio

Luis Martin-Estudillo, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Iowa, is an associate editor of the Hispanic Issues series and Hispanic Issues Online.

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Nicholas Spadaccini, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, is editor-in-chief of the Hispanic Issues series and Hispanic Issues Online.

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Main Description

This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debates in Spain and elsewhere--the emergence of minoritized literatures, multilingualism and identity, new relationships between culture and institutions, the negotiation of historical memories, the connections between migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the impact of global trends on local symbolic systems.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Luis Martin-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini, Contemporary Spanish Literatures Enduring Plurality

New Mappings, New Cartographies
Enric Bou, On Rivers and Maps: Iberian Approaches to Comparatism
Mari Jose Olaziregi, Peripheral Being, Global Writing: The Location of Basque Literature
Kirsty Hooper, Galician Writing and the Poetics of Displacement: Ramiro Fontes A rocha dos proscritos
Jennifer Duprey, Memory and Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Catalan Theater
Maarten Steenmeijer, The New Capital of Spanish Literature: The Best Sellers

Institutions and Literatures
Randolph Pope, A Hispanists View of Changing Institutions, or About Insects and Whales
Dolores Vilavedra, Political Autonomy and Literary Institutionalization in Galicia
Jon Kortazar, Tensions in Contemporary Basque Literature
Jonathan Mayhew, The Persistence of Memory: Antonio Gamoneda and the Literary Institutions of Late Modernity

Challenging Identities
Gonzalo Navajas, The Curse of the Nation: Institutionalized History and Literature in Global Spain
Pilar Lozano Mijares, Postmodernism and Spanish Literature
Cristian Ricci, African Voices in Contemporary Spain
Stewart King, From Literature to Letters: Rethinking Catalan Literary History
Laura Lonsdale, The Space of Politics: Nation, Gender, Language, and Class in Esther Tusquetss Narrative

Afterword
German Labrador

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