Sebastiaan Faber
Biographic Data
| ID | 517292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastiaan Faber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastiaan |
| FAMILY NAME | Faber |
| SIGNATURE | FABER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2068-4537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hidden in plain sight
The relatively late emergence of an electorally successful far-right party in Spain (Vox) confounded observers who had long assumed that the country’s recent experience with dictatorship had rendered it immune to the temptations of right-wing populism. Yet a closer analysis of the nature and evolution of the Spanish Right reveals that the absence of a far-right party should not have been read as an absence of far-right sentiments. For these, the …
The Crown through Catalan Eyes
Catalan journalists and performers have played a leading role in pushing the boundaries of public discourse about the Spanish monarchy in a media landscape that has been riddled with taboos since the 1975 Restoration. Polònia, a political satire created in 2006 for Catalan television, frequently targets the royal family, actively contributing to the erosion of its public image in Catalonia. While early skits featuring the royal family tended to i…
Fractured Frontiers
Teoría e hispanismo. Una trayectoria personal
El autor —hispanista educado en Países Bajos y Estados Unidos en los años 90 del siglo XX— repasa su trayectoria académica e investigadora con un enfoque particular en el papel fluctuante que ha jugado en ella la teoría crítica. El artículo cubre el exilio republicano de 1939, la historia institucional del hispanismo y los estudios de la memoria
Sara J. BRENNEIS. Spaniards in Mauthausen. Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015. Toronto
The United States and World Fascism
The United States and World Fascism: Teaching Human Rights through the Spanish Civil War Sebastiaan Faber They are, says Canute Frankson, “a small group of degenerates gone mad in their lust for power” (Nelson and Hendricks 33–35). According to Henry Wallace, they are “most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact”: “Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity.” What is more, they “use i…
The victorious counterrevolution
Buñuel's Impure Modernism (1929–1950)
A little over an hour into the premiere of Los olvidados in Mexico City on 9 November 1950, some members of the audience could not suppress a muffled shriek of disbelief. One of the film’s two tragic protagonists, Pedro – a young, open-faced boy whose loveless, povertystricken life the film had been following closely – had just looked straight into the camera and thrown a rotten egg at it. Smashing onto the lens, it covered the entire screen in a…
Economies of Prestige
This essay analyses the rise of Iberian cultural studies as the latest phase in the long struggle for status and prestige that has marked the institutional history of Hispanism in the American academy. I argue that Iberian cultural studies can in part be seen as an attempt to reinvent and reinvigorate a field that had long found itself marginalized, and to overcome the disciplinary ideologies and practices that contributed to that marginalization…
Los cuentos mexicanos de Max Aub
"The Truth behind "Jusep Torres Campalans
Jusep Torres Campalans, the apocryphal biography of an avant-garde painter published by Max Aub in 1958, should be read as a reflection on two matters of great importance to an exile of the Spanish Civil War: the relationbetween art (or literature) and politics, and the relation between fiction and reality. In spite of the fictional quality of its protagonist, Jusep Torres Campalans constitutes a serious history, commentary and critique of modern…
Exile and Cultural Hegemony
Between Cernuda's Paradise and Bun ̃ uel's Hell
BSS Subject Index: ARDERIQUEARDERIQUEBUÑUEL, LUIS [FILM DIRECTOR] (1900–1983)CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, PEDRO (1600–1681)CERNUDA, LUIS (1902–1963)CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE (1547–1616) - TheatreCIVIL WAR — SPAIN (1936–1939)CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN (1936–1939) [AS LITERARY/CULTURAL THEME]CORNUCOPIA DE MÉXICO [J. MORENO VILLA]ESFINGE MESTIZA, LA (J. REJANO)EXILE/EXILES [IN HISTORY, LITERATURE & CULTURE]GOA — ASIA — LANGUAGE, HISTORY, LITERATURE, CULTURE & …
Learning from the Latins
Waldo Frank, the American cultural critic who visited Spain in the early 1920s and immediately fell in love with the country, ends his Virgin Spain (1926) with a fictional dialogue between Cervantes and Columbus that, to today's reader, sounds uncannily prophetic and at the same time hopelessly outdated. The writer and the discoverer are standing at the Spanish Atlantic shore. Columbus, whose eyesight has weakened, asks Cervantes to look westward…
Contradictions of left-wing hispanismo
The Beautiful, the Good, and the Natural
El norte nos devora
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
Contradictions of left-wing hispanismo
The Beautiful, the Good, and the Natural
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
El norte nos devora
Contradictions of left-wing hispanismo
The Beautiful, the Good, and the Natural
Between Cernuda's Paradise and Bun ̃ uel's Hell
BSS Subject Index: ARDERIQUEARDERIQUEBUÑUEL, LUIS [FILM DIRECTOR] (1900–1983)CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, PEDRO (1600–1681)CERNUDA, LUIS (1902–1963)CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE (1547–1616) - TheatreCIVIL WAR — SPAIN (1936–1939)CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN (1936–1939) [AS LITERARY/CULTURAL THEME]CORNUCOPIA DE MÉXICO [J. MORENO VILLA]ESFINGE MESTIZA, LA (J. REJANO)EXILE/EXILES [IN HISTORY, LITERATURE & CULTURE]GOA — ASIA — LANGUAGE, HISTORY, LITERATURE, CULTURE & …
Learning from the Latins
Waldo Frank, the American cultural critic who visited Spain in the early 1920s and immediately fell in love with the country, ends his Virgin Spain (1926) with a fictional dialogue between Cervantes and Columbus that, to today's reader, sounds uncannily prophetic and at the same time hopelessly outdated. The writer and the discoverer are standing at the Spanish Atlantic shore. Columbus, whose eyesight has weakened, asks Cervantes to look westward…
"The Truth behind "Jusep Torres Campalans
Jusep Torres Campalans, the apocryphal biography of an avant-garde painter published by Max Aub in 1958, should be read as a reflection on two matters of great importance to an exile of the Spanish Civil War: the relationbetween art (or literature) and politics, and the relation between fiction and reality. In spite of the fictional quality of its protagonist, Jusep Torres Campalans constitutes a serious history, commentary and critique of modern…
Exile and Cultural Hegemony
Los cuentos mexicanos de Max Aub
Economies of Prestige
This essay analyses the rise of Iberian cultural studies as the latest phase in the long struggle for status and prestige that has marked the institutional history of Hispanism in the American academy. I argue that Iberian cultural studies can in part be seen as an attempt to reinvent and reinvigorate a field that had long found itself marginalized, and to overcome the disciplinary ideologies and practices that contributed to that marginalization…
Buñuel's Impure Modernism (1929–1950)
A little over an hour into the premiere of Los olvidados in Mexico City on 9 November 1950, some members of the audience could not suppress a muffled shriek of disbelief. One of the film’s two tragic protagonists, Pedro – a young, open-faced boy whose loveless, povertystricken life the film had been following closely – had just looked straight into the camera and thrown a rotten egg at it. Smashing onto the lens, it covered the entire screen in a…
The victorious counterrevolution
The United States and World Fascism
The United States and World Fascism: Teaching Human Rights through the Spanish Civil War Sebastiaan Faber They are, says Canute Frankson, “a small group of degenerates gone mad in their lust for power” (Nelson and Hendricks 33–35). According to Henry Wallace, they are “most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact”: “Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity.” What is more, they “use i…
Sara J. BRENNEIS. Spaniards in Mauthausen. Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015. Toronto
Teoría e hispanismo. Una trayectoria personal
El autor —hispanista educado en Países Bajos y Estados Unidos en los años 90 del siglo XX— repasa su trayectoria académica e investigadora con un enfoque particular en el papel fluctuante que ha jugado en ella la teoría crítica. El artículo cubre el exilio republicano de 1939, la historia institucional del hispanismo y los estudios de la memoria
Fractured Frontiers
Hidden in plain sight
The relatively late emergence of an electorally successful far-right party in Spain (Vox) confounded observers who had long assumed that the country’s recent experience with dictatorship had rendered it immune to the temptations of right-wing populism. Yet a closer analysis of the nature and evolution of the Spanish Right reveals that the absence of a far-right party should not have been read as an absence of far-right sentiments. For these, the …
The Crown through Catalan Eyes
Catalan journalists and performers have played a leading role in pushing the boundaries of public discourse about the Spanish monarchy in a media landscape that has been riddled with taboos since the 1975 Restoration. Polònia, a political satire created in 2006 for Catalan television, frequently targets the royal family, actively contributing to the erosion of its public image in Catalonia. While early skits featuring the royal family tended to i…
Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Spanish Culture and Identity (6 works)