Crossroads! Intersections―physical and/or metaphorical―demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no longer an option where convergence is poised before the unknown. Where categories such as gender, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, philosophy and religion clash, the multivariate process can reach such complexity that literary, sociological and psychological tools can have differing interpretations. Real-life intersections range from the mundane (choosing among food items on a menu according to taste preferences) to survival-determinants (evaluating the efficacy of various medical procedures). But such intersections are at the two ends of a very long continuum that takes in issues of form/function, and traditional vs."modern." For example, "Home" may be defined both as a physical place and/or a mental construct. In more esoteric contexts, artists chiefly known for visual production, representing their ideas with color and form, not infrequently cross media to "paint" with words. Philosophy, religion, art and literature cross paths via symbols and other visual and linguistic constructs. Writers deal with how and where their own or their characters' multiple identities intersect. The Hispanic world is an extraordinarily vivid place to explore these crossroads. This collection of essays addresses a multitude of crossroads in numerous Hispanic contexts across the intersections of time space/tradition modernity. The contexts are wide-ranging; e.g., the visual, architectural: how Spain's age-old oenological tradition meets modern technology, how the vestiges of long-term dictatorship lurk in the spaces of Spain's democracy; and how space/architecture, and art/poetry cross in Latin America. Painters Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo's productions cross the visual to the written; and magical realism products of the twentieth century Latin American artistic movement defy nature, science, time and space.
Author(s): Debra Andrist
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Brighton
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I
Physical Crossroads of Time & Space/Tradition & Modernity
CHAPTER 1
Spain’s Wine Museums: Where Age-Old Oenological Tradition Intersects with Contemporary Design and Modern Technology
Kimberly A. Habegger
CHAPTER 2
Twentieth-Century Pyramid: Vestiges of Dictatorship in a Democracy—Spain’s Valley of the Fallen
Kimberly A. Habegger
CHAPTER 3
Home, Sweet and Not-So-Sweet, Home: The Museum of Fine Art/Houston (MFAH) and Latin American Art
Debra D. Andrist
CHAPTER 4 Architecture and the Constant
Hispanic Postmodern Project
Elizabeth White Coscio
PART II
Social, Artistic, Religious & Political Crossroads
CHAPTER 5 Representation of the Absent Object: Pictorial Mysticism in El
Greco and Pablo Picasso
Enrique Mallen
CHAPTER 6 Transmogrifying Traditions: el guadalupanismo. The History of Sociedades Guadalupanas and Other Hispanic Organizations in
Texas, Especially in Houston
Debra D. Andrist
CHAPTER 7
Mestizaje as Lateral Universality: Moving In-Between Elitist Cosmopolitanism and Populist Tribalism
John Francis Burke
PART III
Crossroads of Social & Literary Time & Space, Not to Mention Tradition & Modernity, in Spain
CHAPTER 8
Pablo Picasso’s Semantically-Complex Visual Poetry Through Modern Technology
Enrique Mallén and Luis Meneses
CHAPTER 9
Ramón J. Sender’s Sublime Visions of Freedom in Relatos fronterizos (1970)
Montse Feu
CHAPTER 10
Pérez-Reverte at the Early Twenty-First Century Crossroads of Spanish History and Literature
Stephen Miller
PART IV
Crossroads of Social, Gender, Artistic, Literary & Cinematic Time & Space, Not to Mention Tradition & Modernity, in Latin/Latino(x) America
CHAPTER 11
Time Space and Creativity
Rose Mary Salum
CHAPTER 12
Why Can’t a Feminist be Sexy? Sandra Cisneros’ My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway
CHAPTER 13
Confrontations on All Fronts: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Chavarro
CHAPTER 14
The Many Homes: A Reading of Marina Perezagua’s The Story of H
Eduardo Cerdán
CHAPTER 15
China and Chinago: Globalization of the Kung Fu Genre and the Interpretation of Hero and History
Hiqing Sun
Conclusions
The Editor and Contributors
Index
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