Research Catalog

Title

Postmodern paletos : immigration, democracy, and globalization in Spanish narrative and film, 1950-2000 / Nathan E. Richardson.

Author

Richardson, Nathan E., 1968-

Publication

Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, NJ ; London : Associated University Presses, c2002.

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Details

Description

260 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco legalized internal immigration in 1947 he unwittingly inaugurated the greatest period of urban expansion and rural de-population that Spain had known. During the next two decades, nearly four million citizens would move from Spain's traditional pueblos perdidos to overburdened urban metropolises. Along with wooden trunks and baskets of chickens, the immigrants (or paletos, as they were often called) bore on their journey the weight of centuries of ideological meaning tied to the geographic regions they were traversing. To abandon rural Spain had come to signify a rejection of manhood, wealth, Christian values, and even Spanishness itself. Paletos, however innocent they may have appeared, were not ideologically neutral.
• In the coming decades the weight and complexity of the meanings behind immigration, the country, and the city would only grow as Spain advanced from economic under development, social ignorance, and political reaction to full-fledged participation in global economics and politics, activities that would reshape what it meant to be an immigrant and paleto both within and across the geographic border that had traditionally defined the Spanish nation."--Jacket.

Subjects

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rural-urban migration > Spain > History > 20th century
• Rural-urban migration in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > Spain
• Rural-urban migration in literature
• Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes filmography (p. 240-242).
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Aqui Radio Monte-Carlo!: The Performance of Smooth Transitions -- 2. Escaping High and Low: Prosperity, Protest, and the Common Fate of Geography -- 3. Traversing Memory: Discipline and Democracy on the Geo-historical Line -- 4. Postmodern Anachronisms: The City and the Country in Democratic Spain -- 5. Of Cows and Melancholics: Regional Cities and Countries on the Global Map -- Virtual Conclusions at the End of a Pilgrimage.

ISBN

0838754988 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001037544

OCLC

47201227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library