Between Distant Modernities
Between Distant Modernities For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this paradox not simply…
Specifikacia Between Distant Modernities
Between Distant Modernities
For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. 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. 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.
Perhaps the greatest example of this transatlantic link remains the War of 1898, when the South tried to extract itself from but was implicated in US imperial expansion and nation-building. She charts a transatlantic link between two cultures whose performances of "otherness" as assertions of "selfhood" enact and subvert their claims to exceptionality. Simultaneously, the South