Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly monographs and edited collections, focusing on literatures from Central America, South America and the Iberian Peninsula. Books in the series are characterized by dynamic interventions and innovative approaches to established subjects and ground-breaking criticsm on emerging topics in literary studies.
Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature: Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology
1st Edition
By William Franke
January 29, 2026
This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre ...
Literature and Society in the Chilean Post-Transition: The Politics of Diamela Eltit’s Narrative Form
1st Edition
By Denisse Lazo
January 21, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltit’s recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chile’s evolving social and political landscape. Moving beyond postcolonial and postmodernist readings, the book proposes a new methodological framework that ...
Beyond sentidiño: New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Amarelo, Laura Lesta García
December 26, 2025
Beyond Sentidiño: New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture is an interdisciplinary study of Galician literature, languages, and cultures. The volume brings together essays from fields across the humanities and social sciences to foster a discussion that incorporates new concepts that, as of ...
Emplotting Nonviolence in Colombian Autobiographies
1st Edition
By Juan Camilo Brigard
December 10, 2025
How do individuals upholding an ethos of nonviolence tell their life narratives in places ravaged by armed conflict? With an understanding of violence and nonviolence as socially contingent concepts, Emplotting Nonviolence in Colombian Autobiographies focuses on the life writings of three Colombian...
Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space
1st Edition
By Elidio La Torre Lagares
December 02, 2025
Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space theorizes hyperglossia as a critical threshold in literary, philosophical, and media discourse— an excessive, recursive textual force that resists closure, coherence, and containment. Drawing from Bakhtin, Derrida, Foucault, Glissant, and ...
Unveiling the Sacred in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Torres, Pablo A. Baisotti
October 22, 2025
Drawing on diverse scholarly and theoretical perspectives, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions in contemporary Latin America as represented in its literature. It references important historical contexts, from the encounter of the Old and New Worlds to ...
Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote”
1st Edition
By Marsha S. Collins
September 29, 2025
Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” analyzes Don Quixote through the critical lens of friendship studies. Turning a critical spotlight on the friendship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, this book examines the formation, growth, and dynamics of their friendship as the ...
Dimensions of the Impersonal in Clarice Lispector: Ecstasy, Horror, Solidarity
1st Edition
By Wojciech Sawala
September 17, 2025
This book explores the fictional work of Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the eminent twentieth-century Brazilian writer. It employs the theoretical framework of "affirmative biopolitics" by Roberto Esposito, engaging with Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, alongside voices like Mircea Eliade, ...
Weaving Tales: Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, Jason Whittaker
April 13, 2025
This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, ...
Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World: After Apocalypse
1st Edition
By Ariadna García-Bryce
December 18, 2024
This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It underscores the crucial role that the imitation of Christ plays in modeling how representative writers physically and mentally interiorize ...
Inventing the Romantic Don Quixote in France: Jansenists, Rousseau, and British Quixotism
1st Edition
By Clark Colahan
November 28, 2024
Cervantes’ now mythical character of Don Quixote began as a far different figure than the altruistic righter of wrongs we know today. The transformation from mad highway robber to secular saint took place in the Romantic Era, but how and where it began has just begun to be understood. Germany and ...
The Intellectual and Cultural Worlds of Rubén Darío
1st Edition
By Kathleen T. O’Connor-Bater
August 26, 2024
Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) has had a foundational influence on virtually all Spanish-language writers and poets of the twentieth century and beyond. Yet, while he is a household name among Hispano-phone readers, the seminal modernista remains virtually unknown to an English readership....