Looking at Iberia

This collection of new essays focuses on key questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies. From a comparative European perspective, the essays question the concept of ‘Iberian’ itself, query its suitability as a starting point for research and consider it in relation to more established concepts and identities.

Santiago Pérez Isasi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon. He is currently developing a project entitled ‘Portugal in Iberia: Mapping Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)’, which is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). His other research interests include Iberian studies, literary historiography and digital humanities. Ângela Fernandes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the research project ‘Diálogos Ibéricos e Ibero-Americanos’ (‘Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues’) at the Centre for Comparative Studies. Her research interests include literary theory, comparative literature and modern Spanish literature.

Contents: Santiago Pérez Isasi/Ângela Fernandes: Looking at Iberia in/from Europe – Santiago Pérez Isasi: Iberian Studies: A State of the Art and Future Perspectives – Teresa Pinheiro: Iberian and European Studies – Archaeology of a New Epistemological Field – John Macklin: Modernism and Modernity: Iberian Perspectives – Gabriel Magalhães: Europe: The Letter of Numbers. From the Alpha of Peninsular Comparative Literature to the Omega of European Comparative Literature – Roberto Vecchi: Thinking from Europe about an Iberian ‘South’: Portugal as a Case Study – Jüri Talvet: How to Research Iberian Literatures from a European Perspective? Premises and Contexts – César Domínguez: Literatures in Spain: European Literature, World-Literature, World Literature? – Maria Fernanda de Abreu: Iberia in Search for a Literary Identity: A Stone Raft? – Ferenc Pál: Do the Portuguese Toot Merrily? - The Image of Portugal, Portuguese History and People in Hungary during the Nineteenth Century – Derek Flitter: North and South: Iberian Identity Formation in Romanticism and Post-Romanticism – Juan M. Ribera Llopis: Centre–Peninsular Considerations on Catalan Literary Regeneration: An Everlasting Code? – Leonardo Romero Tobar: Juan Valera’s Iberism – Maria Graciete Besse: Iberism Reconfigured: Between Passion and Utopia – Ângela Fernandes: Iberian and Romance Identities: Literary Representations of the Centre and the Margins – Jon Kortazar: Identities in Diverse Societies in the Novel by Kirmen Uribe – Helena Buffery: Iberian Identity in the Translation Zone – Esther Gimeno Ugalde: Polyglot Iberia - or What Is the Place for Iberian Languages in Current Cinema? Presence (and Absence) of Iberian Languages in Cinema.