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The Laughter of the Saints
TheLaughter of the Saintsexamines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.
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A history of the Spanish novel
\"The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarín's La Regenta, or Unamuno's Mist. A History of the Spanish Novel traces the developments of Spanish prose fiction in order to offer a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the rise and emergence of the novel as a genre, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualizes the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain's history, and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is comprised of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and others concerned with specific traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and with some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Pardo Bazán Galdós, and Baroja). A History of the Spanish Novel takes the reader across the centuries to reveal the captivating life of the Spanish novel tradition, in all its splendour, and its phenomenal contribution to Western literature\"--Back cover of book jacket.
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Memory, war, and dictatorship in recent Spanish fiction by women
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women's experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past.
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The Cyborg Caribbean
Finalist for the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association
The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, the book traces four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality, and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress.
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Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic
countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely
due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the
Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of
literary realism. While these writers' works have done much to
establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary
canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always
acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim
of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of
the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of
their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers.
Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest
to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish
language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first
century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and
language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and
Argentina.
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Canto yo y la montaña baila
This is a novel in which human beings, women of water, ghosts and dogs live in Camprodon and Prats de Molló. An area of high mountains that preserves the memory of centuries of struggle for survival and persecutions fueled by ignorance and fanaticism and yet embodies indescribable beauty.
Between Market and Myth
In its early transition to democracy following Franco's death in 1975, Spain rapidly embraced neoliberal practices and policies, some of which directly impacted cultural production. In a few short years, the country commercialized its art and literary markets, investing in \"cultural tourism\" as a tool for economic growth and urban renewal. The artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels—about artists and art historians—have received little critical attention beyond the descriptive. In Between Market and Myth, Vater studies select authors—Julio Llamazares, Ángeles Caso, Clara Usón, Almudena Grandes, Nieves Herrero, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Lourdes Ortiz, and Enrique Vila-Matas—whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Today, in an era of rising globalization, the artist novel proves ideal for examining authors' ambivalent notions of creative practice when political patronage and private sector investment complicate belief in artistic autonomy.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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