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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low, the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during the Depression, to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings together these spatial narratives, the volume reveals how, beyond the boundaries that characterize each space, every location has loose ends that are impossible to contain.

This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book concentrates on the ways the US administers protocols of belonging and non-belonging, and distinguishes between those who can feel at home from those who will always be outside the body politic, even if they were the original "hosts." The volume opens with a genealogy of hospitality through a focus on its sites, from its origins in the Bible, to its national and post-national renditions in contemporary American literature and culture. The authors explore recent representations of immigrant spatiality, from the space of the body in Spielberg’s The Terminal and Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things, to the different ways in which immigrants are incorporated into the United States in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, Karen T. Yamashita’s I Hotel, Junot Díaz’s "Invierno," and Ernesto Quiñonez’s Chango’s Fire, concluding with the spectrality of the immigrant body in George Saunders’ "The Semplica Girl Diaries." Timely and imperative in light of the legacies of colonialism, and the realities of modern-day globalization, this book will be of value to specialists in post-colonialism; American Studies; immigration, diaspora, and border studies; and critical race and gender studies for its innovative approaches to media and literary texts.

This book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells’ space of flows, and Michel de Certeau’s theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic borderlands and migrational U.S. cities. The authors argue for the necessity of an alternative poetics of place that makes room for those who move beyond the spaces of traditional visibility—displaced and homeless people, undocumented workers, hybrid and/or marginalized populations rendered invisible by the cultural elite, yet often disciplined by agents of surveillance. Building upon Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of liminal space as a sphere in which narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate, this study recasts spatial paradigms to insert an array of emergent geographies of invisibility that the volume traverses via the analysis of works by Chuck Palahniuk, Helena Viramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alejandro Morales, and Li-Young Lee, among others, and films such as Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor, Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Babel.

Los Cuadernos penales José María Lidón tienen un doble objetivo. Pretenden mantener viva la memoria del profesor y magistrado José María Lidón, asesinado por ETA, ya que relegarlo al olvido seria tanto como permitir que la insoportable injusticia de su muerte viniera a menos y en cierta forma, hacerse cómplice de ella. Asimismo pretenden que su memoria sea un punto de encuentro para quienes deseen cualquier profesión relacionada con el Derecho penal compartan, como compartimos con él, el anhelo por un Derecho que contribuya a crear cada vez mas amplios espacios de libertad e igualdad y a que este modo su memoria será doblemente enriquecedora.

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term “mimesis” as both a “world-reflecting” and a “world-creating” mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different “location of culture” and “direction of culture;” they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.

Desde su llegada al poder, el dictador Franco afirmó que sus acciones sólo se guiaban por «su responsabilidad ante Dios y ante la Historia». Si el apoyo divino se lo garantizaba la colaboración con la Iglesia católica, la armonía con el pasado de España tuvo que conseguirla con el trabajo voluntario y entusiasta de una legión de propagandistas, escritores, intelectuales y profesores universitarios que pusieron sus plumas e ideas al servicio del Caudillo. El resultado fue una deformación del relato sobre la Historia de España que se podía encontrar tanto en los libros de académicos y universitarios como en los manuales escolares o en programas de la televisión. De esta manipulación es bien conocido el falseamiento que se hizo de los orígenes de la guerra civil, responsabilizando a los defensores de la República para poder presentarse a Franco como el salvador de España y no como lo que realmente era, el dictador que la tiranizaba. Pero la reinvención del pasado fue mucho más lejos: todas las etapas fueron rescritas para crear un relato histórico que legitimara al Caudillo y lo convirtiera en una figura a la altura de El Cid, Carlos V o Felipe II y además justificar la sublevación del 18 de julio de 1936 como un acto de lealtad a España y a su Historia. ÍNDICE In memoriam. Carolyn P. Boyd Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero. Universidad Complutense de Madrid Presentación Francisco J. Moreno Martín. Universidad Complutense de Madrid Los otros exiliados del franquismo: los iberos Juan Pedro Bellón Ruiz. Universidad de Jaén Los pueblos prerromanos al servicio de la Dictadura Franquista (1939-1956) Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero. Universidad Complutense de Madrid Memorias de una Dama. La Dama de Elche como “lugar de Memoria” Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret. Inaph. Universidad de Alicante La historia de Roma y la España romana como elementos de la identidad española durante el periodo franquista Irene Mañas Romero. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Nazis, visigodos y Franco: la arqueología visigoda durante el primer franquismo Carlos Tejerizo García. Universidad de País Vasco La reconquista en el primer franquismo: relecturas tras la nueva cruzada Martín F. Ríos Saloma. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México El medievalismo, lo medieval y el CSIC en el primer franquismo Julio Escalona Monge, Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro, Isabel Alfonso Antón. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Al-Andalus en el nacionalcatolicismo español: la historiografía de época franquista (1939-1960) Alejandro García Sanjuán. Universidad de Huelva Arqueología de al-Andalus durante el franquismo Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez. Universidad del País Vasco El valor del pasado medieval en el ideario del Estado Novo (1933-1974). Legitimación y narrativa Paulo Almeida Fernandes. Universidad de Coimbra Forma mentis Tanto monta. Apropiación de los símbolos e imagen de los Reyes Católicos durante el franquismo Daniel Ortiz Pradas. Universidad Complutense de Madrid El monasterio de El Escorial y el franquismo Miguel Hermoso Cuesta. Universidad Complutense de Madrid Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, maestro sin discípulos, autor del primer manual de Historia del Arte español (1946) Josemi Lorenzo Arribas. Investigador independiente

This volume stems from the idea that the notion of borders and borderlines as clear-cut frontiers separating not only political and geographical areas, but also cultural, linguistic and semiotic spaces, does not fully address the complexity of contemporary cultural encounters. Centering on a whole range of literary works from the United States and the Caribbean, the contributors suggest and discuss different theoretical and methodological grounds to address the literary production taking place across the lines in North American and Caribbean culture. The volume represents a pioneering attempt at proposing the concept of the border as a useful paradigm not only for the study of Chicano literature but also for the other American literatures. The works presented in the volume illustrate various aspects and manifestations of the textual border(lands), and explore the double-voiced discourse of border texts by writers like Harriet E. Wilson, Rudolfo Anaya, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Helena Viramontes, Paule Marshall and Monica Sone, among others. This book is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of comparative American studies and ethnic studies.