Spanish Studies

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The Afterlife of al-Andalus

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.

Radical Poetry

Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.

Two Confessions

First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

Borges, the Jew

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

Imagining the Postcolonial

By Jaime Hanneken
Subjects: Literature

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Destination Dictatorship

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

The Ravine

Fictional narrative of a young girl’s experiences at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Bored to Distraction

Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.

Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies

Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.

Zayas and Her Sisters, 2

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

Constructing Spanish Womanhood

The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.

Delirium and Destiny

Written by one of twentieth-century Spain's most prominent intellectuals, this book--part memoir, part lyrical novel--is both a Bildungsroman about a young woman's intellectual formation during a crucial period of Spanish history (1929-1931) and a philosophical meditation upon the individual's place in society.

The Endless Text

Traces the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote.

The Disenchantments of Love

Published in 1647, these ten tales are among the earliest narratives in Western literature to focus on women's experiences and points of view in love relationships.

Celestina and Castilian Humanism at the End of the Fifteenth Century

Argues that the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea is a drama grounded in the western humanist tradition.

St. John of the Cross

Saint John of the Cross is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western mysticism and one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language. This book examines his thought and then applies it to ...