FABLES OF DEVELOPMENT by FERNANDEZ-CEBRIAN,A

Hardback. New. <i>Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)</i> focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development. Beyond the narratives about progress, modernity, and consumer satisfaction on a global and national level, the cultural archives of the period offer intellectual findings about the expectations of a social majority who lived in the precariousness and who did not have sufficient income to acquire the consumer goods that were advertised. Through the scrutiny of… Read More

Liverpool University Press, 2023. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.53x6.46x0.75 inches.