Hispanic Issues
Culture and the State in Spain: 1550-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Lewis, Francisco J. Sanchez
June 30, 2017
This volume address the role of literature in the formation of cultural notions of 'state,' 'nation,' 'subject,' and 'citizen' in Spain from the Renaissance to the Romantic period. It brings together literary scholars and historians of the Golden Age and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a...
A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Miguel Tamen, Helena C. Buescu
February 29, 2016
This collection of original essays traces the history of Portuguese literature from the medieval period to the present, providing provocative new interpretations of this previously neglected literary history. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portuguese literature to students ...
Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
1st Edition
Edited
By Eukene Lacarra Lanz
June 09, 2014
First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz brings together a group of noted specialists in Arabic, as well as Castilian, Catalan and other Romance languages, to investigate the changes that ...
Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By Emil Volek
March 19, 2014
Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses about postmodernity have overwhelmingly been constructed by European and American intellectuals. This ...
Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry
1st Edition
By Teresa Longo
May 15, 2002
In this compelling collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketing Neruda and Latin American poetry in general in the United States....
Iberian Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan Ramon Resina
June 07, 2001
This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century....
National Identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America
1st Edition
By Antonio Gomez-Moriana, Mercedes Duran-Cogan
April 03, 2001
This study frames the social dynamics of Latin American in terms of two types of cultural momentum: foundational momentum and the momentum of global order in contemporary Latin America....