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Summary
This collection of historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and literary essays examines the linkages between the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.
The essays examine the linkages between the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America in the area of intellectual production over the centuries. No other book provides such a broad coverage of the most significant intellectual influences between the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. At the same time, it treats each case study with unparalleled interdisciplinary depth.
Original essays by some of the most accomplished scholars from Europe, Latin America, and the United States address not only the question of the meaning of the Quincentennial of the Encounter, but also provide the first reflection on what lies ahead in terms of a research agenda and broader questions concerning the relationship between Europe and Latin America.
The last ten years have been marked by an increasing interest in colonial and postcolonial studies. However, there has been a lack of anthologies in English chronicling the complex relationship between Spain, Latin America, and its colonial legacy. Bridging the Atlantic helps to fill this gap and stimulates new "dialectical encounters," as well as more comparative research on postcolonial questions.
"These essays raise fundamental questions about cultural identity and history. The contributors raise many important questions and they fashion an interesting synthesis of culture." -- Georgette Dorn, Chief, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress
Marina Perez de Mendiola is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Battle of Roncesvalles as Nationalist Polemic
JOHN TOLAN
Chapter 2 America Is in Spain: A Reading of Clarín's "Boronña"
JAMES D. FERNÁNDEZ
Chapter 3 Valle-Inclán's Bradomín and Montenegro and the Problem of Hispanic Caciquismo
VIRGINIA GIBBS
Chapter 4 Spain in the Thought of the Argentine Generation of 1837
WILLIAM KATRA
Chapter 5 Rediscovering Spain: The Hispanismo of Manuel Gálvez
JEANE DELANEY
Chapter 6 Krausean Philosophy as a Major Political and Social Force in the Modern Argentina and Guatemala
O. CARLOS STOETZER
Chapter 7 Rodó's Ariel or Youth as Humano Tesoro
JAIME CONCHA
Chapter 8 Jaime Balmes Redux: Catholicism as Civilization in the Political Philosophy of Pedro Albizu Campos
ANTHONY M. STEVENS-ARROYO
Chapter 9 Reality and Desire of America in Luis Cernuda
SANTIAGO DAYDÍ-TOLSON
Chapter 10 Hispanist Democratic Thought versus Hispanist Thought of the Franco Era: A Comparative Analysis
MARÍA A. ESCUDERO
Chapter 11 The Universal Exposition Seville 1992: Presence and Absence, Remembrance and Forgetting
MARINA PÉREZ DE MENDIOLA
Chapter 12 Cultural Identity: The Aesthetic Dimension
