This work analyzes twentieth-century literary depictions of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900-1950) through six novels. It explores how immigrants negotiated their identity between Spanish and American cultures, focusing on themes of history, language, memory, and cultural hybridization.
This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900-1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with American culture, and traces the evolution of their identities through history, language, and transculturation. Using theories of hybridization and Third Space identity, the study analyzes immigrant transformation across different periods and places. The volume includes a theoretical framework, a historical overview, and discussions of memory, language, and cultural assimilation.
The volume addresses transculturality, hybridization, communication, and spatial cohabitation under the lens of logos and cultural integration, which are axes of the modern construction of individual and collective personalities. The result is original and covers diverse 20th-century Spanish-American autobiographies, creating synergies between them and enriching the study of transnational identities.
(Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz, University of La Laguna)
This book provides an illuminating study of the phenomenon of twentieth-century Spanish immigration to the United States, analyzing six literary texts, and delving on theoretical concepts such as transculturation or negotiating a new identity.
(Juan Ignacio Guijarro González, University of Sevilla)
Introduction - Chapter 1. Of Theory and Migration - Chapter 2. Spaniards in the Melting Pot: A Historical Background - Chapter 3. Spanish Memory and Migration - Chapter 4. The Representation of Linguistic Hybridization - Chapter 5. Cultural Hybridization and the Creation of the Americaniard - Conclusions - Works Cited
Francisco Javier Plañxart Pérez-Santalla holds a PhD in Humanistic Research from the University of Oviedo. He earned master's degrees in education and Spanish as a Foreign Language as well as an M.A. in English. He has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Oviedo and the State University of New York at New Paltz.
