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.
Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction
1st Edition
By Nina L. Molinaro
March 31, 2021
Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro ...
African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Strait
1st Edition
By Debra Faszer-McMahon, Victoria L. Ketz
September 30, 2020
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing ...
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943: Transmitting Nationhood
1st Edition
By Lauren Rea
September 30, 2020
In her study of key radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Lauren Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. During the period that has come to be known as the infamous decade, ...
Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media
1st Edition
By Scott Weintraub
September 30, 2020
Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses. In its innovative readings of contemporary digital media works, Latin ...
Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain
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By Shifra Armon
September 30, 2020
Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of ...
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
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By John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, José Pardo-Tomás
September 30, 2020
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their ...
Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist
1st Edition
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By Michelle Sharp, Anja Louis
September 30, 2020
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a ...
Sor Juana In�de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico
1st Edition
By Stephanie Kirk
December 12, 2019
Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical ...
Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War
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By Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson
December 12, 2019
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the ...
The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
1st Edition
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By Lorraine Ryan, Ana Corbalan
December 12, 2019
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since Franco’s dictatorship? What are the ...
Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona: Narrating Memory and Place
1st Edition
By Colleen P. Culleton
June 04, 2019
Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting narrative enterprise, Colleen Culleton argues that the source of this disorientation is the material reality of life in Barcelona in the immediate ...
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture
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By Jennifer Smith, Lisa Nalbone
May 21, 2019
This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and nation in the formation of the fin-de-siècle Spanish and Spanish colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on gender, social class, race, and national identity few studies have focused on how these categories ...