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This is not just another book about Shakespeare. While it does reveal the existence of yet another alternative Shakespeare, it also takes the legendary man of letters beyond English-speaking shores in order to illustrate the diverse effects of translation in creating and deciding the afterlives of canonical texts. By focusing on a minority language spoken by 6.5 million speakers yet still only partially recognized by the Spanish government, "Shakespeare in Catalan" tells us a story of the Bard as both a counter-imperialist deployed against colonial domination and a universal imperialist used...

This book is an edited volume of eleven specially-commissioned essays by a range of established and emerging UK-based Hispanists, which assess recent developments in the disciplines falling under the umbrella of Iberian Studies . These essays, which cover a wide range of time periods and geographical areas, but are united by the common question of what it means to Read Iberia, offer an invigorating critique of many of the critical assumptions shaping the study of Iberian languages and literatures.
This volume offers a timely intervention into the debate about the current repositioning of...

In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas within Aragon, Murcia, and Alghero. The Historical Dictionary of the Catalans deals not only with the people who live in Catalonia, but with the language and culture of the Catalan countries as...

This richly illustrated volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The collection focuses primarily on the complicated relationship between environment, identity, and performance as they were seen, explored, and portrayed by countercultural and avant-garde artists and communities from the 1960s to today. Drawing crucial links between theory and practice, aesthetics and environmentand paying particular attention to the role of the avant-garde in challenging and disrupting dominant art forms...