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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in MLN.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 108, no. 4 (1993);
Vol. 110 (1995) through current issueLatest Articles: MLNTWOProject MUSE®MLN1080-65980026-7910Latest articles in MLN. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Cracks in the Lexicon: The Epistemic Infrastructure of Nature in Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca (1605)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988361
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In La Florida del Inca (1605), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega offers more than a chronicle of conquest.1 His narrative of Hernando de Soto's Florida expedition constructs a distinct intervention in European traditions of rendering American environments intelligible. Unlike his predecessors, who oscillated between wonder and dismissal when confronting New World ecologies, Garcilaso's account of rivers, soils, weather patterns, and terrain negotiates multiple epistemological frameworks concurrently. Nature in his text emerges not as a passive backdrop awaiting imperial transformation, but as an active participant—one that shelters fugitives, confounds conquistadors, and complicates colonial ambitions.This study examines
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallCracks in the Lexicon: The Epistemic Infrastructure of Nature in Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca (1605)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USCracks in the Lexicon: The Epistemic Infrastructure of Nature in Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca (1605)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®955962026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21"Demonio debes de ser": El Hamete de Toledo, Lope de Vega y la expulsión de los moriscos
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988362
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Publicada algunos años después, en Doze comedias de Lope de Vega sacadas de sus originales por él mismo … (1617), la pieza fue compuesta durante el segundo período en que el dramaturgo vivió en la ciudad de Toledo, cuando comenzaba a engalanar su nombre con el flamante cargo de familiar del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición.1 Siguiendo la cronología de Morley y Bruerton, la datación solía fijarse en un dudoso margen temporal, aunque hoy podemos corroborar que fue escrita precisamente en 1608, por encargo de don Gaspar Suárez Franco, caballero toledano y regidor del ayuntamiento, como recientemente lo ha demostrado Abraham Madroñal (46-47). A semejanza de numerosas obras del Fénix, El Hamete de Toledo se basa en unos
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmall"Demonio debes de ser": El Hamete de Toledo, Lope de Vega y la expulsión de los moriscos2026-04-21text/htmlen-US"Demonio debes de ser": El Hamete de Toledo, Lope de Vega y la expulsión de los moriscos2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®1051612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Postpartum Melancholia and Traumatic Motherhood in Cervantes's La señora Cornelia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988363
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This study explores the complex intersections between society's draconian attitudes and laws against women's sexuality and their mental health during pregnancy and after childbirth. I investigate Cornelia's puerperal experience in Cervantes's La señora Cornelia and argue that her severe melancholia, which prompts her to dispose of her neonate and escape into the night, is provoked and exacerbated by her fear of the harsh punishments meted out on women like her who engaged in sexual affairs before marriage. Although she is "married" in secret to Alfonso de Este, Duke of Ferrara, Cornelia suffers the same consequences as those who are unmarried and pregnant.1 Cornelia's extreme fear, a cardinal symptom of melancholia
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallPostpartum Melancholia and Traumatic Motherhood in Cervantes's La señora Cornelia2026-04-21text/htmlen-USPostpartum Melancholia and Traumatic Motherhood in Cervantes's La señora Cornelia2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®925212026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21La Execración contra los judíos de Francisco de Quevedo: Antisemitismo y biopolítica en la España imperial
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988364
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La Execración contra los judíos (1633) es uno de los textos más agresivamente antijudíos del Siglo de Oro y, simultáneamente, una pieza singular en la articulación temprana de formas de pensamiento que pueden leerse—desde la perspectiva crítica contemporánea—como antecedentes de la biopolítica moderna. Aun cuando su violencia verbal parece inscribirse en la tradición medieval del antijudaísmo teológico, la Execración despliega una retórica y un régimen argumentativo que rebasan el marco doctrinal para adentrarse en la lógica de la "raza," la contaminación corpórea, la higiene social y la inmunización comunitaria. En esta confluencia se revela la doble tensión que recorre la obra: de un lado, la insistencia en un
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallLa Execración contra los judíos de Francisco de Quevedo: Antisemitismo y biopolítica en la España imperial2026-04-21text/htmlen-USLa Execración contra los judíos de Francisco de Quevedo: Antisemitismo y biopolítica en la España imperial2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®884582026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Women Enslaved in Zayas's "La esclava de su amante"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988365
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As she approaches the storyteller's seat at the Madrid soirée, her appearance amazes the attendees. A White woman whose face bears the brand of an enslaved person, she has the beauty, demeanor and majestic bearing of "una princesa de Argel, una reina de Fez o Marruecos, o una sultana de Constantinopla" (Zayas, Desengaños 124).1 In itself, the brand on her face does not surprise them, for they are used to seeing branded White women, light-skinned enslaved individuals so marked to distinguish them from dominant class Whites.2 They crane their necks to see her, hoping that a better look would resolve her discomfiting features: their hostess has informed them that this slave wants to convert to Christianity and has
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallWomen Enslaved in Zayas's "La esclava de su amante"2026-04-21text/htmlen-USWomen Enslaved in Zayas's "La esclava de su amante"2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®842092026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Black Waters on the Silver Screen: Franco-era Extractivism in Las aguas bajan negras (1948)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988366
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Standing atop a coal tip, a lone figure empties a mining cart, its contents tumbling down the pile of debris before dramatically splashing into the running waters below. The film's title, superimposed over the images, presages the environmental damage of the coal industry in José Luis Sáenz de Heredia's 1948 film Las aguas bajan negras. Orchestral music swells as the camera pans over bucolic scenes of rolling green hills, cattle grazing in fertile pastureland, and inspiring mountain ranges. Continuing its journey, the camera takes in the diverse landscapes of the countryside behind the opening credits. As the music builds to a crescendo, the camera pauses on the Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Covadonga perched among
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallBlack Waters on the Silver Screen: Franco-era Extractivism in Las aguas bajan negras (1948)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USBlack Waters on the Silver Screen: Franco-era Extractivism in Las aguas bajan negras (1948)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®959012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Transiciones capitalistas: Todas las sangres (1964) de José María Arguedas y el "desborde" de la forma realista
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988367
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Los años sesenta del siglo XX son un periodo clave en la historia peruana porque corresponden a la transición o bisagra entre las numerosas medidas realizadas por promover una reforma agraria, cuyas primeras discusiones se habían producido ya en los años treinta (Manrique 178), y la final implantación de la reforma en 1969 durante el gobierno de Juan Velasco Alvarado. Durante este tiempo, los gobiernos en el Perú plantearon cuestionamientos a las grandes concentraciones de tierra, pero sin medidas concretas, y sobre todo buscaron evitar que los latifundios modernos ubicados en la costa se vieran afectados. Esto marcó una división dentro de la oligarquía peruana, la cual consideraba que el problema radicaba en las
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallTransiciones capitalistas: Todas las sangres (1964) de José María Arguedas y el "desborde" de la forma realista2026-04-21text/htmlen-USTransiciones capitalistas: Todas las sangres (1964) de José María Arguedas y el "desborde" de la forma realista2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®818882026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Migrant Silence and Animal Silence in Clarice Lispector
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988368
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Silence is one of the great themes of Clarice Lispector's writing, across her novels, stories, crônicas and personal reminiscences. Not including quotations from other writers, the words "silêncio" or "silênciosa/o" appear in 78 of the articles in Lispector's collected crônicas, just over 15% of the total. Silence is also much discussed in Lispector's fiction, from "the silence [which] plodded along zzzzzz" ("o silêncio arrastouse zzzzzz"; 9) in the first paragraph of her first novel, the 1943 Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do Coração Selvagem), to the last lines of The Hour of the Star (A Hora da Estrela, 1977), which describe how "the silence is such that not even thought thinks" ("o silêncio é tal que nem o
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallMigrant Silence and Animal Silence in Clarice Lispector2026-04-21text/htmlen-USMigrant Silence and Animal Silence in Clarice Lispector2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®967572026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Punks e Sem-Terra: O MST em Canções Hardcore das Décadas de 1990 e 2000
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988369
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O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) foi, sem dúvida, uma das organizações sociais mais influentes, polêmicas e midiáticas do Brasil nas décadas de 1990 e 2000. Com o seu método de ação direta a fim de ocupar terras e grandes fazendas improdutivas (latifúndios), o MST capturou a imaginação da população geral do país naquele período, notadamente da juventude. No entanto, isso aconteceu não apenas no campo, o que seria o mais esperado, mas também em áreas eminentemente urbanas—nas grandes metrópoles do país. Justo em tais espaços de aglomeração humana, por volta da virada para o novo século XXI, um dos gêneros musicais de maior engajamento político foi a música do hardcore punk. Desde suas origens até
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallPunks e Sem-Terra: O MST em Canções Hardcore das Décadas de 1990 e 20002026-04-21text/htmlen-USPunks e Sem-Terra: O MST em Canções Hardcore das Décadas de 1990 e 20002026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®1171132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Narrativas ulteriores: Ciudad y duelo en Llévame esta noche (2020) de Miguel Gomes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988370
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En años recientes, la producción novelística del escritor venezolano Miguel Gomes (1964) ha venido a integrarse al prolífico universo narrativo iniciado por el autor hace más de tres décadas. En su amplio récord de publicaciones, destacan las colecciones de cuentos Visión memorable (1987), La cueva de Altamira (1992), Viudos, sirenas y libertinos: Relatos (1992), De fantasmas y destierros (2003), Un fantasma portugués (2004), Viviana y otras historias del cuerpo (2006), El hijo y la zorra (2010), Julieta en su castillo (2012)2 y Ante el jurado (2022), y las novelas Retrato de un caballero (2015),3 Llévame esta noche (2020) y Nebraska (2023). Al palmarés de premios literarios obtenidos por Gomes, se suma haber sido
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallNarrativas ulteriores: Ciudad y duelo en Llévame esta noche (2020) de Miguel Gomes2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNarrativas ulteriores: Ciudad y duelo en Llévame esta noche (2020) de Miguel Gomes2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®763562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Beyond Consent: Patriarchal Pedagogy and the Narration of Harm in Paula Bonet's La anguila (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988371
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On June 21, 2018, Valencian artist and writer Paula Bonet tweeted that "No son solo 5 violadores los que andan sueltos. Estamos rodeadas de ellos. Están en casa, en las aulas, sentados en el autobús, en las cenas de empresa, recitando poemas sobre una tarima. Están en todos los putos sitios. Por favor, salid todas a las calles. #hermanayotecreo" (Hidalgo; emphasis added). Bonet wrote this tweet in response to the provisional release of the members of La Manada, the five men accused of gang-raping an eighteen-year-old woman during the 2016 San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain. The case sparked debate nationwide about sexual violence and prompted calls for legal change. In its aftermath, Spain adopted an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallBeyond Consent: Patriarchal Pedagogy and the Narration of Harm in Paula Bonet's La anguila (2021)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USBeyond Consent: Patriarchal Pedagogy and the Narration of Harm in Paula Bonet's La anguila (2021)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®853032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Phantasmatic Othering: Basque Identity and Violence under the Spanish (Post)imperialist Gaze
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988372
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In the Spanish sociopolitical framework, the case of the Basque Country represents a paradigmatic instance of clashing national identities. This ongoing struggle has attracted significant academic and media attention due to political disputes regarding self-determination, self-government, terrorism, and matters related to identity, culture and territory. Over the past few decades, the fear of terrorism and immigration has constituted the hegemonic discourse in Spain. The (anti)political, and repressive narratives promulgated by the major Spanish political parties can only be understood through the study of how these "Others" are constructed within society. In line with this dynamic, Spanish media portrayals of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallPhantasmatic Othering: Basque Identity and Violence under the Spanish (Post)imperialist Gaze2026-04-21text/htmlen-USPhantasmatic Othering: Basque Identity and Violence under the Spanish (Post)imperialist Gaze2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®1024052026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature by Rudyard J. Alcocer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988373
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Rudyard J. Alcocer's Interpretaciones makes a timely intervention in Latin American literary studies by testing what happens when cherished objects of interpretation are treated, also, as objects of inquiry. Framing the book as "experimental criticism," Alcocer asks how real readers—primarily university students across several sites in Latin America and the United States—respond to targeted manipulations of short, Spanish-language literary texts. Across six chapters organized around discrete "moments" in the reading process (titles, authorship, reviews, translation, verisimilitude, and conclusions), Alcocer stages classroom-based experiments, gathers and analyzes quantitative and qualitative data, and then returns
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallInterpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature by Rudyard J. Alcocer (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USInterpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature by Rudyard J. Alcocer (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®140512026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship by Christine Arkinstall (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988374
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Christine Arkinstall's Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship is an innovative work that reorients our understanding of how women have engaged with and shaped narratives of conflict in Spain. While the modern imagination of women in Spanish wars is often dominated by the figures of the Spanish Civil War—the milicianas with their blue jumpers, the defiant cry of "no pasarán" (they shall not pass), and the fervent activism of Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria—Arkinstall's scholarship takes us to an earlier, equally significant period. She uncovers a rich and previously under-examined history of women whose intellectual and literary work provides a crucial counterpoint to a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallWomen on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship by Christine Arkinstall (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USWomen on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship by Christine Arkinstall (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®90942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988375
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Venture capitalists may obsess over parsing the "derivative" from the "genuine" innovations that will yield surplus in the future, but scholars of the nineteenth century, steeped as we are in the past, also suspect that little in the present can be truly novel at all. Nicolás Campisi's The Return of the Contemporary urges us to reexamine both the concept and the currency of newness at a time when micro-coefficients of novelty regulate academic and literary production.Three reviews precede mine that have already done the heavy lifting—that delicate braid of chapter summary and interpretive finesse characteristic of the genre (Madison Felman-Panagotacos, Daniel Runnels, Nuria Angélica Sánchez Matías). To avoid
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallThe Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USThe Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®186972026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21La excepcionalidad permanente. Nuestros estados de excepción by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988376
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El soberano ya no es Uno y tampoco se torna completamente visible en esos momentos concretos de creadora y prodigiosa aparición. La soberanía, así, no es hoy algo que, sin más, se predique de un sujeto, ni del monarca absoluto ni del pueblo (supuestamente) libre. Oculta y ubicua, se mueve (y nos mueve) alimentando los entresijos de los más variados dispositivos de nuestro siglo XXI. En consecuencia, la posibilidad de la excepción se hace también velada y omnipresente. En el libro que reseñamos, Ignasi Gozalo Salellas describe con lucidez los rostros de esta excepcionalidad y, como su reverso, ofrece la faz de la soberanía puesta al descubierto en su crudeza y en su cotidianidad más descarnadas. Una soberanía que
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallLa excepcionalidad permanente. Nuestros estados de excepción by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USLa excepcionalidad permanente. Nuestros estados de excepción by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®147752026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21A Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism by Ignacio Infante (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988377
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The introduction of the term "planetarity" into the lexicon of cultural studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak nearly thirty years ago marked the beginning of a "planetary turn," rooted in its attention to the alterity at the heart of transnational entanglements. As scholars like Christian Moraru have noted, planetarity has found increased critical purchase across the humanities as globalization and its discontents continue to present analytical challenges to comparative studies. Volumes like Susan Stanford Friedman's provocative Planetary Modernisms have substantially altered debates about periodization, while more recently, Mary Louise Pratt's Planetary Longings broached the question of 20th and 21st century
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallA Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism by Ignacio Infante (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USA Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism by Ignacio Infante (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®181942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Performing Parenthood: Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film by Heather Jerónimo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988378
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Heather Jerónimo's Performing Parenthood interrogates cultural representations of "non-normative Spanish families" (xiii) through diverse "enactments" (5) of fatherhood and motherhood in post-transition Spain. Drawing on a careful selection of contemporary literary and filmic narratives and analyzing them through theoretical frameworks of masculinity, paternity and maternity, queer theory, disability studies and more, Jerónimo succeeds in expanding the critical analytical corpus of studies of "the Spanish family", an institution she suggests is irrevocably "marked by the country's history of dictatorship" (5). In so doing, the author makes a larger argument that parenthood itself, both in Spain and beyond, is a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128/image/coversmallPerforming Parenthood: Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film by Heather Jerónimo (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USPerforming Parenthood: Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film by Heather Jerónimo (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®130862026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21