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- Title
Lust and Disgust: The Rhetoric of Abjection in the Spanish Immigration Films Bwana, Flores de otro mundo and Princesas.
- Authors
PALARDY, DIANA
- Abstract
In Spanish films about immigration, the notion of abjection, manifested as filth, contamination and similar types of debasement, has often been associated with the immigrant Other striving for integration. As interpreted by Julia Kristeva, the abject is an ambiguous figure, one that resists facile categorization and defies fixed notions of identity. The purpose of this investigation is to explore how the immigrant Other, through visual and verbal rhetoric of abjection, is posited as a figure of both attraction and repulsion in Bwana (1996), Flores de otro mundo (1999), and Princesas (2005). In these films, the myth of Spanish homogeneity is challenged by representations of physical and cultural 'contamination', which signal the supposed encroachment of immigrant behaviour, dress and appearance on Spanish national identity, and force a re-evaluation and reconfiguration of what constitutes 'Spanishness'.
- Subjects
SPANISH films; IMMIGRANTS in motion pictures; BWANA (Film); FLORES de otro mundo (Film); PRINCESAS (Film); ABJECTION in motion pictures; OTHER (Philosophy) in motion pictures; NATIONALISM in motion pictures
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2015, Vol 92, Issue 7, p825
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2015.49