Books in the Iberian and Latin American Studies series

This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain, analysing changes in censorship from the Second Republic to the post-Franco transition to democracy, and illuminating the ideological underpinnings, the effects on the industry and the responses of theatremakers.

This book is a literary history of existentialism in Latin America. While primarily a literary study, indispensable (if underappreciated) figures of existential philosophy in Latin America are introduced to the discussion.

This long-duree study contributes to a deep knowledge of the formation of ruling elites, nobility, political class and rich families in southern Europe (Spain) during the transition from the Ancien Regime to the nineteenth century's new liberal regimes.

This book analyses Carmen Martin Gaite's novels published in the 1990s. The book is particularly important for its focus on the way a persistent presence of visual elements (drawing, painting and collage) shed light on the relevance of her residence in the United States.

It follows the unexpected passage of a group of radical Spanish-speakers in the isolated region of northern Australia during the first half of the twentieth-century, a period of rapidly expanding globalisation as well as the duration of the Spanish Civil War.

This book traces a link between Argentina's neoliberal crisis, race and national identity, through the analysis of how cultural products of the period challenged the dominant image of the nation as homogeneously white.

This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles's work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.

When discussing the Tlatelolco 1968 massacre, neither official sources nor the 'voice of the people' necessarily aim to tell the 'truth'. They rather stir up feelings of anger, sadness or shame, and this book demonstrates the extent to which the triggering of such emotions affects what those reading different accounts will believe.

This book is an anthology of over a hundred of the finest sonnets of the Spanish Golden Age, each accompanied by an accurate and lively translation into an English sonnet and by a detailed critical commentary.

Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award. This book covers both his acclaimed historically-based fictions and his, allegorical works, demonstrating the continuity of thought and image between these two phases of the writer's career.