The Family Album

Histories, Subjectivities, and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Yeon-Soo Kim

2005
268 pages
ISBN 1611482263
LC 2005005802

This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range of works by canonical as well as less studied writers and artists, including Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Saura, and Marta Balletbò-Coll. Yeon-Soo Kim is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.

About the author:

Yeon-Soo Kim is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.