The Discourse of Flanerie in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Texts
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 10 September 2015
- ISBN 9781611486995
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 236.47x159x26.416 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll. Walking through London, Paris, and Berlin entailed engagements with the latest modernity. Thought-provoking, exhilarating, and at times terrifying: flanerie adjusted to and documented the mobility of modernity, its aesthetic possibilities and social risks. Antonio Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina is one of several contemporary authors who have closely coupled the development of their literary characters to urban perambulations. Their biographic growth, cultural and social adaptations, as well as epistemological insights are so dependent on flanerie that his late twentieth and early twenty-first-century texts warrant the designation flaneur literature. Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina has also contributed to the current decentralization of flaneur literature from Paris to smaller cities, including Spanish cities like Granada, Cï¿1⁄2rdoba, and San Sebastiï¿1⁄2n. Reflecting on Poe, Baudelaire, and Benjamin in these cities, his characters update and revise the canon of flaneur literature, stretching its discursive boundaries. This study examines not only the mobility of his characters but also draws attention to intercultural aspects of his flaneur literature which lie both in a uniquely Spanish perspective on flanerie as well as in engagements with cultural otherness. Walking through a Moroccan city or through Chinatown in New York, Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina's characters broaden the Eurocentric horizon of canonical flaneur literature and the modernist one of his Spanish flaneur precursor, Federico Garcï¿1⁄2a Lorca, whose portrait of New York is revisited in Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina's longest flaneur text. National and literary boundaries blur as intercultural urban spaces transform his characters into transnational subjects. This study traces the author's struggle with this globalization: a residual rural nostalgia straddles uneasily with forays into filmic flanerie, a form of spectatorship that renders the flaneur newly mobile in the mass-mediatized environments of postmodernity. If Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina is generally regarded as an incisive chronicler of Spain's transition from Francoism to democracy and an attentive memorialist of the Spanish Civil War, this study bases its portrait of a much more globally engaged Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina in his characters' movements from Spain into the urban centers of Euro-American postmodernity and its northern African periphery.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Purpose of this Study
Chapters
Muï¿1⁄2oz Molina Criticism
Chapter 1: Lisbon Flanerie:
San Sebastiï¿1⁄2n
Lisbon
Saint Victoire
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Moroccan Flanerie
The preface of Cï¿1⁄2rdoba de los omeyas
Ardor guerrero
El jinete polaco
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Chinese Flanerie:
Baudelaire
Lorca
Primitivism
China
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Lunar Flanerie
Chapter 5: Allegorical Flanerie
The Architect
Flanerie
National Allegory
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
