Queer Events: Post-Deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s to 1990s (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Band 4) - Hardcover

Vilaseca, David

 
9781846314674: Queer Events: Post-Deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s to 1990s (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Band 4)
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ISBN 10: 1846314674 ISBN 13: 9781846314674
Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2011

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Queer Events offers radical new rereadings of crucial texts from the era of the Spanish transition to democracy. From Terenci Moix to Vicente Aranda, most of the major writers and filmmakers of the time are found here but David Vilaseca also addresses many who deserve to be better known, including Antonio Roig, controversial scholar Alberto Cardín, and the directors of the short-lived yet vital film movement known as the Barcelona School. Drawing on queer theory and the philosophies of Badiou, Agamben, and Deleuze, Queer Events reconceptualizes a complex period in Spanish history characterized by discomfort with the past and deep ideological conflict with the present.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Vilaseca (1964–2010) was professor of Hispanic studies and critical theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.



David Vilaseca was Professor of Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2003) and L'aprenentatge de la soledat (Edicions 3i4, 2008; winner of the 2007 Octubre Prize for Catalan fiction). He was killed in a traffic accident in London on 9 February 2010.

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Queer Events studies for the first time crucial texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers radically new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who deserve to be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig, controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardín, and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquín Jordà, members of the short-lived, but vital, movement known as 'the Barcelona School'. David Vilaseca treats this group of texts, both literary and cinematic, in a wholly original way. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time never previously used in a Hispanic context (Deleuze, Agamben, Zizek and, above all, Badiou), Queer Events argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. The book argues that the Transition emerges as (in Badiou's terms) the great 'evental site' of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.

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Verlag
Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846314674
ISBN 13 
9781846314674
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Anzahl der Seiten
242
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