Abstract
Americanized Spanish Culture explores the intricate transcultural dialogue between Spain and the United States since the late 19 th century.
The term "Americanized" reflects the influence of American cultural traits, ideas, and tendencies on individuals, institutions, and creative works that have moved back and forth between Spain and the US. Although it is often defined narrowly as the result of a process of cultural imperialism, colonization, assimilation, and erasure, this book uses the term more expansively to explore representations of the transcultural mixing of Spanish and American culture in which the American influence might seem dominant but may in some cases be the one that is shaped. The chapters in this volume highlight the lives of fascinating individuals, ideologies, and artistry that represent important themes in this transnational relationship of dislocated empires. The contributors represent a wide array of perspectives and life experiences giving breadth, depth, and realism to their observations and analysis. Organized in two parts of five chapters each, this volume offers a unique perspective on the intermixing and intermingling of Spanish and American social, cultural, and literary traits and characteristics.
This book will be of interest to students of US and Spanish history, Iberian and Hispanic American studies, and cultural studies.
Introduction Transcultural Bonds and Americanized Spanish Culture
Christopher J. Castañeda & Miquel Bota
Part I: Spanish Lives in the US
1. Parallel Lives and Clashing Identities: Francisco José Navarro and Pedro Esteve in the ‘capital of the world’
Chris Ealham & Christopher J. Castañeda
2. The Anarchist’s Pen is Mightier than the Bomb: My Grandfather, Maximiliano Olay
Amelia Olay Kaplan
3. Chronicling the Modern US: Aurelio Pego’s Immigration Journalism
Montse Feu
4. The Silence of Fathers: The Story Ramon J. Sender Never Wrote
Ramón Sender Barayón & Christopher J. Castañeda
5. Self-Made Man a la Española : Jean León
Pepa Novell
Part II: Cartoons, Dramas, and Lyricism
6. " The Will to Empire :" Josep Bartolí’s Editorial Humor in the New York Magazine Ibérica; For a Free Spain
Montse Feu
7. California Dreamin’: Nostalgia and Retrofuturism in 1980s Spanish Comics
Alberto Villamandos
8. Latin@ Visions: Race and Gender Representations in Netflix’ Cocaine Coast
Zaya Rustamova
9. Our Ways Are Their Ways in Disguise: Cuéntame como pasó and the Wonders of the Spanish Satellite
Miquel Bota
10. Post-National Genres: A ‘Story’ of Lyricism from North America to the Iberian Peninsula
Virginia Ramos
Christopher J. Castañeda is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. His interests include transnational Hispanic studies and Spanish-language anarchist print culture.
Miquel Bota is Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Sacramento. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and his areas of interest are imperialism and gender studies in the cultural production of Global Hispanophone.