The Representation of Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
- Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed. lit.)
Argitaletxea: New Vision University Press
ISBN: 978 9941 9692 7 0
Argitalpen urtea: 2021
Bolumenaren izenburua: Migration and Society. Literature, Translation, Film
Alea: 2
Orrialdeak: 118-135
Mota: Liburuko kapitulua
Laburpena
Human migration, both internal and external, is not a recent phenomenon, and although it is very present in the media, it has not been so in the field of cultural and artistic creations since it continues to be a tangential issue due, among others reasons, to the absence of non-national creators. This absence of works starring immigrant characters means that the representation does not conform to reality and that, in addition, it is usually biased and stereotyped. Cinema, television, radio, literature, etc. They have the enormous power to convey relevant issues that deeply affect life, and are, among other things, capable of creating images that survive in us, constructing portraits, ideas, judgments, reflections or beliefs that last longer than we can imagine. This article analyzes some of the literary and cinematographic works that do have immigrant characters according to the main ways in which the representation of the phenomenon of immigration is approached, following the classification of Castiello (2006).