Introduction: constructing Spanish and Southern exceptionality -- Breathing modern life into the Quijote: Spanish and Southern regeneration in the new century -- The religion of blood and myth: William Faulkner's and Camilo Jose Cela's modern subjects -- Fleeing exceptionality in A little red MG: driving through national melancholia -- Contesting narratives of failed performance: racial identity and national exceptionality -- Being "bad" and objectified womanhood: transgressive femininity in Spain and the South -- Exceptionality as leisure: tourism and urban planning in the New South and democratic Spain -- Conclusion: from tourism to time travel
Summary
A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco's Spain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher