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.
Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo, Kevin G. Guerrieri
January 29, 2024
This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact—to perform, to stage, to represent—human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice ...
Female Criminality and “Fake News” in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos
1st Edition
By Stacey L. Parker Aronson
September 25, 2023
This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today’s "fake news." Parker Aronson incorporates a socio-historical approach in which she considers crime and deviance committed by...
Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature
1st Edition
By Oscar A. Pérez
September 25, 2023
This book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for ...
Queer Rebels: Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels
1st Edition
By Łukasz Smuga
September 25, 2023
Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis ...
Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature
1st Edition
By Veronica Menaldi
May 31, 2023
This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic—which manipulates objects, celestial spheres,...
Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristián H. Ricci
December 30, 2022
This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore ...