Books in the Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature series

In this book, Frederick de Armas argues that throughout his literary career, Cervantes was engaged in a conversation with the classical authors of Greece and Rome, especially through the interpretations of antiquity presented by the artist Raphael.

The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. As well, it juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Maranon and Andre Gide.

This is a study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day. Spanish American autobiographies are shown to be fascinating hybrids, aspiring to documentary status while unabashedly exalting the self, and dwelling on personal experience while purporting to be exercises in historiography.

Firmat explores the process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity.

This study provides a radical re-examination of the regional novel, which played a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Professor Alonso presents his argument through challenging readings of three works: Rivera's La Voragine; Gallegos's Dona Barbara and Guiraldes's Don Segundo.

This book offers a theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. The book contains readings of major works in the tradition such as Garcilaso el Inca's Comentarios reales, Sarmiento's Facundo, Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos and Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de Soledad.

This study provides a fresh assessment of Spanish Romanticism through a sympathetic appraisal of its literary theory and criticism. It identifies the origins of Spanish Romantic thought in the theories of German Romantic thinkers, in particular Herder's historicism.

Rene Prieto examines how Miguel Angel Asturias turns to the cultural traditions of the ancient Maya and combines them with the rhetoric of surrealism in order to produce three highly complex and widely misunderstood masterpieces; the Leyendas de Guatemala (1930), Hombres de maiz (1949) and Mulata de tal (1963).

The articles gathered within this 1998 book address the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions. This is the first critical anthology of one of the most significant writers to appear in fifteen years.

This book examines the medical underpinnings of two major misogynist works from fifteenth-century Iberia: Alonso de Martinez's Arcipreste de Talavera and Jacme Roig's Spill. Solomon shows how the demonization of women in medieval society was viewed as legitimate and vital to the well-being of men.

The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo, initially published in 1998, elucidates the professional and literary means by which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States.

A broad historical panorama of the journalist/narrative interaction, exploring the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the development of Spanish American narrative.

In this 1992 book, Antonio Cussen reconstructs Bello's account of the Spanish American Revolution arguing that the unfinished poem America records the disintegration of an essentially Augustan model of power.

In this book, first published in 1993, Professor Ross places both Siguenza and his narrative within the phenomenon of the barroco de Indias (Spanish American baroque). She incorporates into her examination of Siguenza methods of critical analysis in the study of colonial Spanish-American literature, which focuses on narrative theory, the historiography, and feminist criticism.

The articles gathered within this 1998 book address the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions. This is the first critical anthology of one of the most significant writers to appear in fifteen years.