Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
by
Brittany Powell Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
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...