Intersection of race, class, gender and nation in fin-de-siecle Spanish literature and culture

This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and nation in the formation of the fin-de-siècle Spanish and Spanish colonial subject.

Despite the wealth of research produced on gender, social class, race, and national identity, few studies have focused on how these categories interacted, frequently operating simultaneously to reveal contexts in which dominated groups were dominating and vice versa.

Such revelations call into question metanarratives about the exploitation of one group by another and bring to light interlocking systems of identity formation, and consequently oppression, that are difficult to disentangle.

The authors included here study this dynamic in a variety of genres and venues, namely the essay, the novel, the short story, theatre, and zarzuelas.