BETWEEN DISTANT MODERNITIES/ PERFORMING EXCEPTIONALITY IN FRANCOIST SPAIN AND TH

A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's SpainFor centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional other within US and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national selfhood. Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation with modernization and r etained a sense of defeat. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this paradox not simply to compare two apparently similar cultures but t o reveal ...[Read more]