Iberian Modalities
A Relational Approach to the Study of Culture in the Iberian Peninsula
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
The term “Iberian studies” has been gaining academic currency, but there is still disagreement about its exact meaning. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of Portugal and Spain, yet for others the term challenges conventional geographical attitudes. Iberian Modalities brings together contributions from leading international scholars to demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian studies.
“A set of important, timely, and well-written considerations about the history and current state of the fields of Hispanic Studies, arguing for an overdue renewal in the direction of Iberian Studies.”
“Iberian Modalities is an engaging work and one that no doubt will raise much curiosity and heated debate.”
List of Contributors
Introduction: Iberian Modalities: The Logic of an Intercultural Field
Joan Ramon Resina
Part I: Institutionalizing Iberian Studies: A Change of Paradigm
1. Dine with the Opposition? ¡No, gracias! Hispanism versus Iberian Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
Dominic Keown
2. “If We Build It, Will They Come?” Iberian Studies as a Field of Dreams
Luisa Elena Delgado
3. Implementing Iberian Studies: Some Paradigmatic and Curricular Challenges
Mario Santana
4. Interliterariness and the Literary Field: Catalan Literature and Literatures in Catalonia
Antoni Martí Monterde
Part II: Theorizing Iberia
5. Iberia Reborn: Portugal through the Lens of Catalan and Galician Nationalism (1850–1950)
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
6. Francisco María Tubino: Between Federalism and Iberianism
Patrizio Rigobon
7. Translation and Conversion as Interconnected “Modes”: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism in Iberian Cultures
Christiane Stallaert
Part III: Iberian Dialogs
8. Asymmetry and the Political: Paradigms for a Cultural History of the Iberian Twentieth Century
Ulrich Winter
9. Sins of the Flesh: Bullfighting as a Model of Power
William Viestenz
10. Jews and Jewishness in Carme Riera’s Dins el darrer blau
Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
11. Mediterranean Exemplarities: The Case of Medieval Iberia
David Nirenberg
Part IV: From Sea to Iberian Sea
12. Immortality, Corruption, and the Sisè Seny: João de Barro’s Empire of Language
Vincent Barletta
13. The Iberian Problem: A Confederative Model for Pessoa’s Heteronyms
Humberto Brito
14. Lisbon as Destination: Josep Pla’s Iberianism through His Travels to Portugal
Joan Ramon Resina
Works Cited
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages
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