Project MUSE®: Hispanic Review - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Hispanic Review.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 73 (2005) through current issueLatest Articles: Hispanic ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Hispanic Review1553-06390018-2176Latest articles in Hispanic Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Beyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987578
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At a recent concert by Argentinean pianist Adrián Iaies, I found myself with an obstructed view of the performer’s hands, but a clear view of his face. What might have been a less than ideal vantage point on the artist’s performance turned out instead to be a remarkably clarifying position. For although we might expect a pianist to channel the energies of a performance through the hands, Iaies’s facial expressions made it abundantly clear that he was in constant conversation: with himself, with his instrument, with composers and performers from the past, with his own prior performances and recordings, and with the discoveries and surprises he happened upon during the course of his live performance, which irradiated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallBeyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USBeyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®108532026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Writing the Antiportrait: Decapitations and Fragmented Identity in Roque Larraquy’s La comemadre and Eduardo Rubinschik’s La entereza
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987579
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“Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy?” poignantly asks Samanta Schweblin on the occasion of the 2018 publication of Heather Cleary’s English translation of Roque Larraquy’s 2010 novel La comemadre (Kripper and Cleary). The predictable answer might well be all these things at once. Yet, without addressing its compositional core—the grotesque body shaped by language and politics—its affective, generic, and epistemological aspects risk losing their broader resonance, one that reaches far beyond the confines of a single novel. While the narrative theme of and fascination with the body have been deeply rooted in Argentinian literature throughout the twentieth century, the last two decades have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallWriting the Antiportrait: Decapitations and Fragmented Identity in Roque Larraquy’s La comemadre and Eduardo Rubinschik’s La entereza2026-04-08text/htmlen-USWriting the Antiportrait: Decapitations and Fragmented Identity in Roque Larraquy’s La comemadre and Eduardo Rubinschik’s La entereza2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®923382026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Spanish Mormon Westerns: Popular Literature, Religion, and US–Spain Relations during the Franco Regime
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987580
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Broadly speaking, Spain entered the twentieth century with a negative view of the United States. The short-lived desastre colonial of 1898 served to announce the US’s presence on the world stage as a burgeoning superpower heretofore to be reckoned with. Spain, by contrast, was forced to nurse the wounds of an imperial ego long bereft of a material empire (with notable exceptions). The antagonistic feelings between the two countries, at least on the political front, would, with occasional glimpses of improvement, remain in place until the end of World War II (Ñíguez 92–117; Pardo 14–35).At mid-twentieth century, Spain’s economic exigency and the repercussions of its political isolation on the one hand, and American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallSpanish Mormon Westerns: Popular Literature, Religion, and US–Spain Relations during the Franco Regime2026-04-08text/htmlen-USSpanish Mormon Westerns: Popular Literature, Religion, and US–Spain Relations during the Franco Regime2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®1066592026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Narrating and “Voicing” the Animal: An Analysis of Focalization and Nonfocalized Animal Characters in Horacio Quiroga’s “Anaconda” (1921)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987581
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Published in 1921, “Anaconda” by Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga features a cast of serpent protagonists who reside in the jungles of Misiones, Argentina. The serpents discover that a group of human scientists have recently repopulated a previously abandoned dwelling nearby, transforming it into a serotherapy laboratory to run snake venom immunization experiments. This classic short story follows the snakes’ coordinated attempt to confront the threat of human invasion and concludes with a brutal battle in which the scientists and their domestic animals annihilate the snake population, with only the titular anaconda surviving the encounter. The violent death of nearly every single snake emblematizes Quiroga’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallNarrating and “Voicing” the Animal: An Analysis of Focalization and Nonfocalized Animal Characters in Horacio Quiroga’s “Anaconda” (1921)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USNarrating and “Voicing” the Animal: An Analysis of Focalization and Nonfocalized Animal Characters in Horacio Quiroga’s “Anaconda” (1921)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®709932026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08“Por lo espeso del bosque y más temido”: Ercilla en Millarapue
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987582
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Durante las últimas décadas, la eclosión de estudios dedicados a la épica aurisecular ha aportado claves imprescindibles para la interpretación de La Araucana (1569, 1578, 1589), desde su relación con los géneros literarios e historiográficos coloniales, hasta el modo en que Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594) adapta diversos modelos clásicos, medievales y renacentistas en su poema sobre la lucha entre españoles y los pueblos originarios del Reino de Chile.1 A pesar de los fecundos debates académicos sobre algunos aspectos fundamentales de La Araucana —por ejemplo, el concepto de justa guerra implícito en su representación de los conflictos geopolíticos del siglo XVI—, existe un consenso ampliamente compartido: su
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmall“Por lo espeso del bosque y más temido”: Ercilla en Millarapue2026-04-08text/htmlen-US“Por lo espeso del bosque y más temido”: Ercilla en Millarapue2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®1027852026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Escándalo y modernismo: el caso de Mata Hari y Enrique Gómez Carrillo en la red intelectual transatlántica
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987583
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Enrique Gómez Carrillo no conoció a Mata Hari, la seductora bailarina acusada de espionaje durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Parece que el célebre dandi del modernismo hispanoamericano y cronista de la Gran Guerra, quien escribió también sobre las bailarinas y la escena parisina, ni siquiera asistió a las tantas presentaciones de Mata Hari en esa ciudad, ni estableció comunicación alguna con ella. Sin embargo, luego de la ejecución de la bailarina por parte del ejército francés en 1917, corrió el rumor de que Gómez Carrillo había sido su amante, y más aun, que habría sido él quien la entregara a las autoridades francesas en España. La polémica desató exaltadas muestras de apoyo y de condena al famoso escritor
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallEscándalo y modernismo: el caso de Mata Hari y Enrique Gómez Carrillo en la red intelectual transatlántica2026-04-08text/htmlen-USEscándalo y modernismo: el caso de Mata Hari y Enrique Gómez Carrillo en la red intelectual transatlántica2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®780212026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08De “Una granadina” a “Pepa”: seudónimos y autoría femenina en la obra de Josefa Acevedo (1803–1861)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987584
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En su Ensayo sobre los deberes de los casados (1845), la escritora colombiana Josefa Acevedo (1803–1861) denuncia los impedimentos que enfrentaban las mujeres al incursionar en la esfera literaria del siglo XIX latinoamericano: Os quieren ilustradas pero no literatas. La mujer que se ocupa en escribir libros, dicen ellos, deja presumir que descuida sus diarios, minuciosos y sagrados deberes, i se le censura con rigor porque intentó salir de su esfera. Si sus obras son esencialmente útiles y bellas, se insinúa con arte que no hizo sino el oficio de amanuense, y se nombra públicamente el hombre que con razón o sin ella, se supone que trabajó en la redacción de estas obras queriendo darlas alguna singularidad con un
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallDe “Una granadina” a “Pepa”: seudónimos y autoría femenina en la obra de Josefa Acevedo (1803–1861)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USDe “Una granadina” a “Pepa”: seudónimos y autoría femenina en la obra de Josefa Acevedo (1803–1861)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®827232026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Sonia Velázquez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987585
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In a compelling demonstration of interdisciplinary research, Sonia Velázquez argues that Saint Mary of Egypt complicates discourses of beauty and holiness at the intersection of religion and materiality. Her provocative title, Promiscuous Grace, elucidates Saint Mary of Egypt’s challenge to established archetypes of feminine sensuality and saintliness. Velázquez demonstrates that her beauty is not a straightforward sign of holiness—as is the case for the Virgin Mary—nor is it a vain quality that must be purified to turn a sinner into a saint, exemplified by Mary Magdalene. Instead, she argues that Saint Mary of Egypt’s “promiscuous grace” enables the “both/and” of paradox to coexist: linking beauty to the grotesque
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/289/image/coversmallPromiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Sonia Velázquez (review)2026-04-08text/htmlen-USPromiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt by Sonia Velázquez (review)2026-04-082026TWOProject MUSE®95712026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-08