Regarding the Spain of Others: Framing Modern Spanish Citizenship

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course departs from Erving Goffman's notion of "cultural frame", which shows how social existence is an ongoing "negotiation" about which cultural frame should encompass and thus ascribe meaning to various events and actions. Bearing this perspective in mind, this seminar focuses on different models of Spanish citizenship by examining the educational emotional value of various modern Spanish cultural artifacts, whose representational mode (melodrama and/ or comedy) provides a peculiar affective frame within which ordinary socio-historical experience was interpreted and given meaning.