Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies

Despotic Bodies and Transgressive BodiesExamines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy. Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition. Beginning with an analysis of the period of autarky

Following the coup d’état of Napoleon III in 1851

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