Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826516963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She set about to study these images and others like them as counter-text to traditional narratives of and about the time.The result, Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939, is the first academic book to analyze the rich array of visual and textual representations of the erotic in Spanish popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Rather they were engaged in a variety of "unnatural" sex acts, acts clearly at odds with the Spanish Catholic Church's doctrine that sex should serve for procreation alone: menages a trois, fellatio, cunnilingus, and zoophilia. But perhaps the most surprising images of the collection were a series of photos and sketches devoted to nuns and priests frolicking together on consecrated ground.Zubiaurre realized she had discovered more than just a half-hidden collection of "naughty pictures," rather, she held in her hands a wealth of supressed or forgotten materials that revealed a subversive countercurrent to the orthodoxies of Spain's male-dominated official high culture in the early 20th century. Tucked away among formal photos of King Alphonso XIII and Queen Isabel II was
Zubiaurre trains a sharp eye for telling details on a wide array of erotic popular culture--sex advice manuals, novelettes, magazines, postcards, photographs. The book unveils the internationalist, playful, titillating side of a Spain we have up to now associated only with 'serious' art and writing."--Roberta Johnson, emeritus professor of the University of Kansas and author of Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel. "An engrossing tour through the tantalizing visual and literary culture of an era, Maite Zubiaurre's Cultures of the Erotic in Spain: 1898-1939 will certainly reshape how
She is the author of El espacio en la novela realista. . Maite Zubiaurre is Professor of Spanish at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where she specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature. Paisajes, Miniaturas, Perspectivas (Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, 2000)
Solid scholarship, handsome presentation, in-depth analysis The unbridled pursuit of the erotic did not begin after Franco, contrary to Spanish arthouse films! Half a century before Pedro Almodóvar was born, Spain enjoyed as much excess and explicit sexuality as it seems to after the fall of fascism. Contrary to the usual division of Spanish culture into conservative and liberal factions, portending the tensions which would erupt into civil w