Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
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Academic journal publishing on the cultural production and cultural practices in or related to the nations comprised by the Spanish state
Studying Equatoguinean playwright Tomás Ávila Laurel’s 2004 work “El fracaso de las sombras”, Elisa Rizo situates this play in the larger context of Spanish literature and argues that it represents an act of self-definition for the African nation doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Teatro guineoecuatoriano contemporáneo: el mibili en “El fracaso de las sombras”1
Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 7, No. 3, 2006)
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Studying Equatoguinean playwright Tomás Ávila Laurel’s 2004 work “El fracaso de las sombras”, Elisa Rizo situates this play in the larger context of Spanish literature and argues that it represents an act of self-definition for the African nation doi.org/10.1080/1463...
In his 2012 article, Ted Bergman uses Félix Guattari’s understanding of “transversality” and its application to Baroque theater to reexamine the character type of the “the gypsy” in early modern teatro breve doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Transversality, criminality, and the gypsy in Spanish baroque teatro breve
This study uses Bryan Reynolds's interpretation of Félix Guattari's article “Transversality” to establish an alternative method of studying teatro breve in which the gypsy character type is constan...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In his 2012 article, Ted Bergman uses Félix Guattari’s understanding of “transversality” and its application to Baroque theater to reexamine the character type of the “the gypsy” in early modern teatro breve doi.org/10.1080/1463...
In a very intriguing work of archival analysis, Melissa Figueroa studies mentions of Golden Age theater in two manuscripts from Tunisia to study how Moriscos memorialized their past and asserted their hybrid identity after their expulsion from Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Theater reminiscences: the politics of memory after the expulsion of the Moriscos
This paper explores how theater reminiscences helped Moriscos to strengthen their sense of community in North Africa after their expulsion from Spain (1609–1614). Moriscos in exile remembered early...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In a very intriguing work of archival analysis, Melissa Figueroa studies mentions of Golden Age theater in two manuscripts from Tunisia to study how Moriscos memorialized their past and asserted their hybrid identity after their expulsion from Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
In his 2020 article on the Teatro Fronterizo of José Sanchis Sinisterra, Bernardo Antonio González analyzes the 1992 production of “Lope de Aguirre, traidor” and explores the relations between theater, politics, and society in this significant year doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Redefining the contours of hispanicity in '92: José Sanchis Sinisterra’s teatro fronterizo and the V Centenario
The showcasing of José Sanchis Sinisterra’s Lope de Aguirre, traidor within the V Centenario was significant for various reasons. The event bestowed legitimacy upon a playwright who foregrounded ma...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In his 2020 article on the Teatro Fronterizo of José Sanchis Sinisterra, Bernardo Antonio González analyzes the 1992 production of “Lope de Aguirre, traidor” and explores the relations between theater, politics, and society in this significant year doi.org/10.1080/1463...
The first is Luana Bermúdez’s article from 2022, studying plays by Laura Ripoll and Itziar Pascual about the difficult reintegration of women who went into exile as a result of the Spanish Civil War doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Por las mallas de la memoria: exilio y olvido en La frontera de Laila Ripoll y Jaula de Itziar Pascual
El presente artículo se centra en el estudio de la representación del exilio republicano en la dramaturgia femenina española del siglo XXI. Desde una postura marginal respecto a la masculina, las d...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The first is Luana Bermúdez’s article from 2022, studying plays by Laura Ripoll and Itziar Pascual about the difficult reintegration of women who went into exile as a result of the Spanish Civil War doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Accompanying Albert Sopale’s play is a critical introduction, written by Eva María Copeland, which argues that the use of the spectral in this work by the Spanish playwright and actress links past and present, local and global in the context of Black lives
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Silvia Albert Sopale's Blackface y otras vergüenzas in the wake of Black lives in Spain
This brief introduction to Silvia Albert Sopale’s 2019 play Blackface y otras vergüenzas situates the work within Spain’s ongoing denial of its African and Afrodescendant histories and the glaring ...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Accompanying Albert Sopale’s play is a critical introduction, written by Eva María Copeland, which argues that the use of the spectral in this work by the Spanish playwright and actress links past and present, local and global in the context of Black lives
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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A special section of this issue is dedicated to Silvia Albert Sopale’s “Blackface y otras vergüenzas”, including the full Spanish text of the play’s third version (performed in New York in February 2025) and its translation into English by Shannel Julius
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Blackface y otras vergüenzas, ver. 3 // Blackface and Other Shameful Acts, ver. 3
This is the text for the third version of the play Blackface y otras vergüenzas by Silvia Albert Sopale. Following the original text is a translation into English of this version of the play by Sha...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A special section of this issue is dedicated to Silvia Albert Sopale’s “Blackface y otras vergüenzas”, including the full Spanish text of the play’s third version (performed in New York in February 2025) and its translation into English by Shannel Julius
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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Both a scholar and a musician, Luis Gimenez Amoros offers an in-depth study of his recent album “The Unknown Spanish Levant (Egypt)”, showing how his musical practice provides a way to explore the legacies of al-Andalus, from Spain, to Egypt, across Africa, and beyond
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Música festera, coexistence and multimusicality during the making of The Unknown Spanish Levant (Egypt)
This article addresses the development of música festera, a musical style with over 3,000 compositions, for the celebration of the Moros y Cristianos festival in eastern Spain that has been held si...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Both a scholar and a musician, Luis Gimenez Amoros offers an in-depth study of his recent album “The Unknown Spanish Levant (Egypt)”, showing how his musical practice provides a way to explore the legacies of al-Andalus, from Spain, to Egypt, across Africa, and beyond
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Stacey Parker Aronson studies a seventeenth-century pliego suelto and its ostensibly innocent treatment of a pig, arguing that this work of popular literature uses the pig as a way to surreptitiously denounce non-Christians
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A pig in a poke? An affirmation of pro-Christian ideology through gastronomy in an early modern Spanish pliego suelto
The plethora of Christian references to the pig, and its associations, both saintly and demonic, in a seventeenth-century pliego suelto by Francisco de Palencia manifests the obfuscated Christian r...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Stacey Parker Aronson studies a seventeenth-century pliego suelto and its ostensibly innocent treatment of a pig, arguing that this work of popular literature uses the pig as a way to surreptitiously denounce non-Christians
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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Transnational queer identities on social media is the topic of study for Adrián Gras-Velázquez and Antoni Maestre-Broton’s article from 2019 – they consider questions of assimilation and difference for foreign nationals searching for a queer community in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
#Gayspain: homonormativización y transnacionalidad en Instagram
El objetivo de este estudio es examinar el uso (eventual o continuado) que la comunidad gay extranjera residente en España hace de la red social Instagram. Concretamente, se indaga en la noción de ...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Transnational queer identities on social media is the topic of study for Adrián Gras-Velázquez and Antoni Maestre-Broton’s article from 2019 – they consider questions of assimilation and difference for foreign nationals searching for a queer community in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Analyzing Madrid’s Pride celebrations (in particular, the “pregón” or opening act), Ignacio Elpidio Domíngeuz Ruiz studies the many tensions between commodification and resistance at Madrid Pride (celebrating its 47th year this June) doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Neither resistance nor commodification: Madrid’s LGBT Pride as paradoxical mobilization
Pride events and queer spaces have become, throughout the years, the loci of debates and conflicts. The relationship between emancipatory and activist origins, on the one hand, and an evolution tow...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Analyzing Madrid’s Pride celebrations (in particular, the “pregón” or opening act), Ignacio Elpidio Domíngeuz Ruiz studies the many tensions between commodification and resistance at Madrid Pride (celebrating its 47th year this June) doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Interested in Spain’s independent film industry in the years following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Chris Perriam offers a case study of two LGBTQ author-producer-agencies and how they depict queer lives on film in crisis and post-crisis in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Post-crisis LGBTQ film- and video-making in Spain: two case studies
This essay is concerned with the ways in which the social, political and economic aftermath of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis has shaped small-scale, independent film- and video-making in Sp...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interested in Spain’s independent film industry in the years following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Chris Perriam offers a case study of two LGBTQ author-producer-agencies and how they depict queer lives on film in crisis and post-crisis in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...
From 2010, Linda Williams’s essay uncovers the melancholia of lost homosexual attachments apparent in Almodóvar’s melodramatic “Tacones Lejanos” (1991) doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Melancholy melodrama: Almodóvarian grief and lost homosexual attachments*
Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 5, No. 3, 2004)
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June 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From 2010, Linda Williams’s essay uncovers the melancholia of lost homosexual attachments apparent in Almodóvar’s melodramatic “Tacones Lejanos” (1991) doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Timothy McGovern analyzes the queer themes (ignored by many critics at the time) in the poetry of Galician poet Antón Lopo in his article from 2006, asserting the need for queer Galician literature in a Spain that had just legalized same-sex marriage doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Expressing Desire, Expressing Death: Antón Lopo's Pronomes and Queer Galician Poetry
Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2006)
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June 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Timothy McGovern analyzes the queer themes (ignored by many critics at the time) in the poetry of Galician poet Antón Lopo in his article from 2006, asserting the need for queer Galician literature in a Spain that had just legalized same-sex marriage doi.org/10.1080/1463...
In an OPEN ACCESS article, Cristián Ricci explores the tensions of fame and identity faced by Miss Raisa – the Moroccan-born rapper and influencer, who grew up and resides in Barcelona
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Beats and beliefs: Miss Raisa's digital advocacy, autobiographical journey and the quest for identity, integration and empowerment
In her autobiography Porque me da la gana: una vida en contra de prejuicios (2022), hip-hopper Miss Raisa (Imane Raissali Salah, b. 1997) explores themes of cultural identity, religion and the inte...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In an OPEN ACCESS article, Cristián Ricci explores the tensions of fame and identity faced by Miss Raisa – the Moroccan-born rapper and influencer, who grew up and resides in Barcelona
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FREE ACCESS until September 1 is Ian Russell’s article on Pepe Espaliú’s performance art piece “El nido”, studying the legacy of the Córdoba-born artist's meditation on presence, absence, and illness
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June 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
FREE ACCESS until September 1 is Ian Russell’s article on Pepe Espaliú’s performance art piece “El nido”, studying the legacy of the Córdoba-born artist's meditation on presence, absence, and illness
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Diego Zorita Arroyo enters into the discourse on “empty Spain” with his article – FREE ACCESS until Sept. 1 – analyzing the 1958 dam novel “Central Eléctrica”, by Jesús López Pacheco
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Narratives of depopulation before La España vacía: Jesús López Pacheco’s Central Eléctrica against Paco el Rana’s dams
In his essay La España vacía (2016), Sergio del Molino highlights narratives about rural Spain that fail to accurately represent these areas, either through idealized or grotesque portrayals. This ...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Diego Zorita Arroyo enters into the discourse on “empty Spain” with his article – FREE ACCESS until Sept. 1 – analyzing the 1958 dam novel “Central Eléctrica”, by Jesús López Pacheco
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Óscar Bascuñán provides an enlightening study of newspaper reports of communal action against gendered violence in late-19th/early-20th century Spain, studying the interplay between the press, the public, and the legal system at the turn of the century
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June 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Óscar Bascuñán provides an enlightening study of newspaper reports of communal action against gendered violence in late-19th/early-20th century Spain, studying the interplay between the press, the public, and the legal system at the turn of the century
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
The web series Desalmados is the focus of Alex Saum-Pascual and Freya Schiwy’s 2012 article – published in post-08 crisis Spain – on new media forms and the limit to which cultural works question the necropolitical systems of power in which they are made
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DESALMADOS. HIPERTEXTOS Y BIOPOLÍTICA EN EL MUNDO DE LA WEBSERIE ESPAÑOLA
Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2012)
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March 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The web series Desalmados is the focus of Alex Saum-Pascual and Freya Schiwy’s 2012 article – published in post-08 crisis Spain – on new media forms and the limit to which cultural works question the necropolitical systems of power in which they are made
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
The role of live music – especially rock and pop concerts, as well as club culture – in Barcelona’s larger project of urban regeneration is studied in Duncan Wheeler’s 2020 article #Barcelona
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Barcelona, a musical olympus? Live concerts, club cultures, television and city branding
The 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games announced Spain’s democratic credentials and facilitated a vast urban regeneration project in the Catalan capital. There is extensive bibliography on the role playe...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The role of live music – especially rock and pop concerts, as well as club culture – in Barcelona’s larger project of urban regeneration is studied in Duncan Wheeler’s 2020 article #Barcelona
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
How does children’s TV reflect the changes of early-70s Spain, as the country sought to modernize while maintaining the conservative, authoritarian values of Francoism? This is the basic question asked in this study of RTVEs children’s programming between 1969–75
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Nuevos programas para nuevas realidades: la programación infantil y juvenil en TVE (1969–1975)
Se analiza la programación infantil y juvenil de producción propia y ajena emitida por TVE entre 1969 y 1975 para valorar si los cambios políticos, sociales y culturales experimentados en el tardof...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
How does children’s TV reflect the changes of early-70s Spain, as the country sought to modernize while maintaining the conservative, authoritarian values of Francoism? This is the basic question asked in this study of RTVEs children’s programming between 1969–75
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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