Editor's Note

The Spring 2017 issue of Cervantes brings a couple of significant changes to the journal's staff. First, after many years on our editorial board as one of our esteemed Associate Editors, George Shipley has retired from this position. Second, William Clamurro has also stepped down as our Book Review Editor following his recent retirement as a faculty member at Emporia State University. I would like to thank both George and Bill for their many years of conscientious service to the journal, to the Cervantes Society of America, and to the profession.

With regard to our book reviews, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Ana Laguna, who has agreed to serve as the journal's new Book Review Editor. Congratulations, Ana! I look forward to working with you.

We begin this Spring issue with an article by Aurora Hermida-Ruiz on Professor James March's pioneering use of "Don Quixote" in the pedagogy of economics, business management, and leadership training.

Hermida-Ruiz's essay is followed by two articles that focus on the Novelas ejemplares. Amy Sheeran explores issues related to the significance of blood in "La fuerza de la sangre" in order to productively read this novela's primary genres—the miracle story and the romance—against each other. Sarah Gretter, for her part, examines "El celoso extremeño" within the context of Jerome Bruner's work in cognitive psychology and argues that this particlular novela ejemplar can be read as a paradigm of constructivism.

Following these two essays on the Novelas ejemplares, we return to several more articles that focus on Don Quixote. Conxita Domènech examines the "Roque Guinart" episode in part two of the novel and its connection to the Moriscos of Cataluña. William Daniel Holcombe explores Salvador Dalí's artistic representation of Don Quixote in a mid-twentieth-century US edition of Cervantes's masterpiece. Gabriele Eckart, meanwhile, analyzes the Japanese and German cultural contexts that underpin Yoko Tawada's 2000 play Sancho Pansa. And finally, Stephen Hessel provides a Cervantine reading of the US television program Homeland, exploring the extent to which Cervantes's experience as a captive in the bagnos of Algiers possibly colored his views on Islam and its relationship to the early modern Spanish state.

Following this second cluster of Quixote-related articles, we are pleased to publish the script of Edward H. Friedman's solo-performer play Desocupado lector, which premiered in Nashville, Tennessee on 29 September 2014.

As always, we end with several book reviews. For the Spring 2017 issue, these consist of a review article by James Iffland on Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda's unauthorized sequel, Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, and four other traditional book reviews: Tatiana Alvarado Teodorika on Ruth Fine's Reescrituras bíblicas cervantinas, Miguel Martínez on Isabel Lozano-Renieblas's Cervantes y los retos del Persiles, Brian Phillips on Valentín Núñez Rivera's Cervantes y los géneros de la ficción, and William Clamurro on Michael Harney's new English translation of the Novelas ejemplares.

Finally, many thanks to our anonymous peer reviewers, to my Editorial Assistant, John Beusterien, and to our various Associate Editors for all their hard work and support. And a special thanks to Cristina González Martín.