Culture of Cursileria

Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain

Szerző: Noel Maureen Valis

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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The Spanish terms cursi and cursileria are not easily translated, but they refer to a cultural pheno...

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Szerző

Noel Maureen Valis

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2003

oldal

424

EAN

9780822329978

ISBN

0822329972

Enbook ID

04937687

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

644

Méretek

152 x 235 x 27

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The Spanish terms cursi and cursileria are not easily translated, but they refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursileria Noel Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture. Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to argue that cursileria has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century Spain. The Spain of this era, popularly viewed as the European power most resistant to economic and social modernization, is characterized by Valis as suffering nostalgia for a bygone, romanticized society that structured itself on strict class delineations. With the development of an economic middle class during the latter half of the nineteenth century, these designations began to break down and individuals across all levels of the middle class began to exaggerate their own social status in an attempt to protect their cultural capital. While the resulting occurrences of cursileria were often provincial, indeed backward, the concept was--and still is--closely associated with a sense of "home." Ultimately, Valis shows how cursileria embodied the disparity between old ways and new, and how in its awkward manners, airs of pretension, and graceless anxieties it represents Spain's uneasy surrender to the forces of modernity. The Culture of Cursileria will interest students and scholars of Latin America, cultural studies, Spanish literature, and modernity.

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