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  • Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain

    Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz

    Edited by Susan Paun de García, Donald R. Larson ...
    Series Book 47 - Ibérica
    The essays in this book honor the seminal contributions to the field of early modern Spanish drama of Donald T. Dietz, who has devoted his career to the promotion of classical theater, not just as dramatic poetry but as vibrant performance art. Written by a variety of respected scholars and never before published, the twenty-two essays, organized into six sections, present a wide variety of ... Read more

    $153.49 CAD

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  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Malinche in Mexican Literature

    From History to Myth

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Cortés's son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of national betrayal ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by Jessica Knauss ...
    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Read more

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  • The Lieutenant Nun

    Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso

    by Sherry Velasco ...
    Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World

    Prose, Photography, Film

    Edited by Nuala Finnegan, Dylan Brennan ...
    Series series Legenda
    Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire interest worldwide. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

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  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

    by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

    A Tribute to Barbara Mujica

    by Susan L. Fischer, Frederick A. de Armas, Edward H. Friedman, Emilie L. Bergmann, Teresa Scott Soufas, Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Susan Paun de García, Isaac Benabu, Emily C. Francomano0, Charles Victor Ganelin1, Gillian T. Ahlgren2, Sharon D. Voros3, Sherry Velasco4, Alison Weber5, Marjorie Agosín6 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged ... Read more

    $50.19 CAD