This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debates in Spain and elsewhere--the emergence of minoritized literatures, multilingualism and identity, new relationships between culture and institutions, the negotiation of historical memories, the connections between migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the impact of global trends on local symbolic systems.

Luis Martín-Estudillo, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Iowa, is Managing Editor of the Hispanic Issues series published by Vanderbilt.

Nicholas Spadaccini, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, is editor-in-chief of the Hispanic Issues series and Hispanic Issues Online.