New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies: New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
About the Book Series
New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies presents innovative studies that seek to understand how the cultural production of the Hispanic world is generated, disseminated, and consumed. Ranging from the Spanish Middle Ages to modern Spain and Latin America, this series offers a forum for various critical and disciplinary approaches to cultural texts, including literature and other artifacts of Hispanic culture. Queries and proposals for single author volumes and collections of original essays are welcome.
Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia
1st Edition
By María Cristina Quintero
May 22, 2017
The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged place for ideological negotiation, the comedia ...
Reading Inebriation in Early Colonial Peru
1st Edition
By Mónica P. Morales
May 22, 2017
Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebriation evaluates the discursive and ...
The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain
1st Edition
By Grace E. Coolidge
August 26, 2016
Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic ...