Books in the New Hispanisms series

In original essays drawn, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Merito, founded in 1787, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. The collection gathers scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.

Felipe Valencia examines the construction of lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sings of and perpetrates symbolic violence against the feminine and the female beloved in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.

Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important new trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century.

An innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films from the late nineteenth century to the first three quarters of the twentieth century.

Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation.

Explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign.

Examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-95). Hearing Voices highlights the importance of sound and - in most cases - its relationship with gender in Sor Juana's work and early modern culture.

Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime's supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished.Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajic analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajic argues that the combination of Francoism's long duration and the uncertainty surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regime's politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres--legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir--Gajic examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the Francoist era in the context of the regime's attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers' critiques of Francoism's endurance.By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance. 

Investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.