For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional -other- within U.S. 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 they retained a sense of defeat. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this paradox not simply to compare two apparently similar cultures but to reveal how we construct difference around this self/other dichotomy. She charts a transatlantic link between two cultures whose performances of...