Project MUSE®: The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 86 (2009) - Vol. 87 (2010)Latest Articles: The Bulletin of Hispanic StudiesTWOProject MUSE®The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies1478-33981475-3839Latest articles in The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Quevedo contra todos: la segunda parte de la Política de Dios y su contexto
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406737
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Quevedo fue uno de los escritores más polémicos de su tiempo. Su talante belicoso y sus atrevimientos le hicieron pasar unos quince años de su vida encarcelado o desterrado, y le acarrearon virulentos ataques literarios y personales, llegando a extremos como los del Tribunal de la justa venganza, donde se reclamaba su ejecución en la hoguera: 'lo podían meritamente sacrificar a las llamas' (Franco-Furt 1932: 1146).1 Todo ello parece no encajar demasiado bien con la imagen de conservador o de escritor siempre al servicio de los poderosos con la que a menudo se le ha asociado.2 En efecto, Quevedo se movió peligrosamente en la frontera entre integración y disidencia, y sus obras conocieron un éxito de ventas
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallQuevedo contra todos: la segunda parte de la Política de Dios y su contexto2010-12-31text/htmlen-USQuevedo contra todos: la segunda parte de la Política de Dios y su contexto2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®1454512026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Court, Market and the Fashioning of the Galateo español
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406738
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Commenting on Lucas Gracián Dantisco's Galateo español (c. 1582),1 an adaptation of Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558), Anthony Close writes that the Spanish treatise was 'the handbook of the age so far as manners is concerned' (2000: 225). The work enjoyed considerable popularity in early modern Spain, seeing at least twenty editions in the two centuries following its initial publication in the late sixteenth century (Álvarez-Ossorio 1999: 41). In fact, in seventeenth-century Spain the popularity of Gracián Dantisco's Galateo español soon overshadowed Domingo de Becerra's 1585 more 'faithful' Spanish rendition of Della Casa's work. A book about fashioning and transforming the self, the Galateo español
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallCourt, Market and the Fashioning of the Galateo español2010-12-31text/htmlen-USCourt, Market and the Fashioning of the Galateo español2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®979352026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Memoria de la Guerra Civil y modernidad: el caso de El corazón helado de Almudena Grandes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406739
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Desde mediados de los noventa, en España se está colaborando desde diferentes espacios sociales, intelectuales y políticos para el establecimiento de una memoria histórica que otorgue legitimidad a los perseguidos y represaliados durante la Guerra Civil y el franquismo (Stucki y López de Abiada 2004). A través de la recuperación crítica del pasado reciente, dicha memoria busca subsanar el 'pacto de olvido' de la reciente historia española acordado en la transición.1 En la encrucijada histórica de la transición española (1976–1982), memoria y olvido establecieron una problemática relación con respecto a la historia del siglo XX, como afirma Guillem Martínez en el prólogo de Franquismo pop: 'La historia en este país
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallMemoria de la Guerra Civil y modernidad: el caso de El corazón helado de Almudena Grandes2010-12-31text/htmlen-USMemoria de la Guerra Civil y modernidad: el caso de El corazón helado de Almudena Grandes2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®1266722026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31The Shadow of Maeterlinck's La Vie des abeilles and El espíritu de la colmena
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406740
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Le plus surprenant, quand on suit de l'œil, dans une ruche vitrée, la marche de ces événements, c'est qu'on n'observe jamais la moindre hésitation, la moindre dévision. On ne trouve aucun signe de discorde ou de discussion. Une unanimité préétablie règne seule, c'est l'atmosphère de la ville, et chacune des abeilles paraît savoir d'avance ce que toutes les autres penseront.¿Qué es la España avergonzada y pulverizada de hoy sino el triunfo de todo lo que divide y debilita? ¿Y cuál ha sido la labor de los enemigos de España que desde el siglo XVIII torpedean nuestra historia, sino una importación continua de elementos de discordia?Still considered to be one of the greatest, but also one of the most enigmatic films to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallThe Shadow of Maeterlinck's La Vie des abeilles and El espíritu de la colmena2010-12-31text/htmlen-USThe Shadow of Maeterlinck's La Vie des abeilles and El espíritu de la colmena2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®642832026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Space as a Metafictional Marker: Borges' 'Tema del traidor y del héroe' and Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406741
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A major element in many of Borges' short fictions is the relationship between reality, human perception, and language. Donald L. Shaw, in Borges' Narrative Strategy, compares the texts with 'parables or fables which illustrate aspects of the general collapse of rational or religious certainties in our modern world, and the bewildering possibilities which thus emerge' (1992: 2). As Shaw describes it, the texts contain an 'implicit "what if…?" [or] "suppose that…"' (2), and thus expose dizzying, vertiginous and fantastic universes, where any previous ontological certainties have been abandoned. Among other thematic and narrative elements, the settings convey the main idea of a metaphysical disorientation. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallSpace as a Metafictional Marker: Borges' 'Tema del traidor y del héroe' and Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno2010-12-31text/htmlen-USSpace as a Metafictional Marker: Borges' 'Tema del traidor y del héroe' and Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®820412026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Insights into Slavery and Abolition in an Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Interlude: Novo, e devertido Entremez Intitulado O contentamento Dos Pretos Por terem a sua Alforria
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406742
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This article examines a short Portuguese chapbook interlude, Novo, e devertido Entremez Intitulado O contentamento Dos pretos Por terem a sua Alforria,1 which celebrates the decision of Pantalaõ, a Portuguese businessman living in Lisbon, to issue letters of manumission to his domestic slaves, Catherina and Sebastiaõ, despite the protests of his wife, Brazia. Entremezes were typically anonymous, produced in theatres and on the streets with actors or puppets, and read individually or out loud in groups. The published pamphlets–the focus of this article–were often sold on the street by blind peddlers, who would hang them from a string, hence the name used to categorize this and other genres of dramatic literature
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallInsights into Slavery and Abolition in an Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Interlude: Novo, e devertido Entremez Intitulado O contentamento Dos Pretos Por terem a sua Alforria2010-12-31text/htmlen-USInsights into Slavery and Abolition in an Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Interlude: Novo, e devertido Entremez Intitulado O contentamento Dos Pretos Por terem a sua Alforria2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®1192942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Tratado verdadero del viaje y navegación (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406743
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The gifted Carmelite Friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa (c. 1570–1630) spent around fourteen years of his life (1608–1622) in the New World. He wrote three books and a number of memoriales about his experience, the most famous of which is his multi-volume Compendio y descripción de las Indias Occidentales, where, in truly interdisciplinary fashion, Vázquez de Espinosa deals with navigation, flora, fauna and what we would describe today as anthropology and ethnography. Also multi-disciplinary is his Tratado verdadero del viaje y navegación (1623), now carefully edited by Sara Lehman, which stands out for its unusual topic: the trials and tribulations of a fleet's return journey from the Mexican harbour of San Juan de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallTratado verdadero del viaje y navegación (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USTratado verdadero del viaje y navegación (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®59922026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31El Quijote en Azul, and: 'Aquí se imprimen libros': Cervantine Studies in Honor of Tom Lathrop (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406744
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Los dos volúmenes colectivos que aquí se reseñan aparecieron en el año 2008 y merecen destacarse por razones diversas. El Quijote en Azul reúne las ponencias presentadas en las I Jornadas Internacionales Cervantinas celebradas en la ciudad argentina de Azul en 2007. De este libro cabe destacar su enfoque casi monográfico en torno a la recepción de la obra de Cervantes en la Argentina. Nos muestra, asimismo, la excelente calidad de esas I Jornadas y les augura un esplendoroso porvenir. El segundo volumen se ha concebido como el Festschriften a Tom Lathrop, en que se recoge una miscelánea de trabajos de gran calidad, escritos por un verdadero dream team del cervantismo. Tom Lathrop, además de cervantista y traductor
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallEl Quijote en Azul, and: 'Aquí se imprimen libros': Cervantine Studies in Honor of Tom Lathrop (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USEl Quijote en Azul, and: 'Aquí se imprimen libros': Cervantine Studies in Honor of Tom Lathrop (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®131702026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Sigilosos v(u)elos epistemológicos en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406745
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This book engages in an allegorical-inter-textual reading of some of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's most important works (the auto sacramental The Divine Narcissus; the triumphal arch The Allegorical Neptune; and the 975-verse epistemological poem First Dream). Such an approach renders an effective contribution since it attempts to de-codify 'a series of hidden, surprising messages which point toward the search for feminine knowledge and power through the poetic word' (133; all translations are mine). According to Grossi, Sor Juana employs political allegory in The Allegorical Neptune, divine allegory in The Divine Narcissus and conceptista allegory in First Dream. All of them are contained in the 'poetic allegory'
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallSigilosos v(u)elos epistemológicos en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USSigilosos v(u)elos epistemológicos en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®65792026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Escribiendo desde los márgenes: colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406746
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Established in 1540 as a highly centralized religious order headed by a superior general in Rome, the Society of Jesus – commonly known as 'La Compañia de Jesús' in the Hispanic world – established its first Latin American mission in Florida in 1565, before moving to Mexico in 1572. There it soon opened residences in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Guadalajara and Guatemala, and a series of colleges, each with a church attached, in these and other major towns that catered for the educational and spiritual needs of both Spanish and Indian parishioners. Tuition was free, paid for by the profits of the estates, farms and cattle ranches established as part of the endowment of each college before it opened. Missionary work in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallEscribiendo desde los márgenes: colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USEscribiendo desde los márgenes: colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®64622026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Visions and Revisions: Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406747
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The suggestive title of this volume by Kathleen M. Glenn and Kathleen McNerney heralds a timely contribution to critical study of female-authored literature and its particular engagement with key issues in twentieth-century Spanish history, especially given the current burgeoning interest in Spain in 'Memoria Histórica'. It sets out to cast a fresh look on texts by a diverse group of authors: established names and younger writers, as well as those overlooked by scholars. In this sense, the collection represents an important addition to the growing body of works on Iberian women's narrative, of which a recent example is the edited volume Mirrors and Echoes: Women's Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain by Bergmann and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallVisions and Revisions: Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USVisions and Revisions: Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®95652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Imma Monsó: la narrativa de la ironia i la diferència (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406748
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Montserrat Lunati Maruny presenta en aquest llibre un fascinant estudi sobre les novel·les i la contística d'una de les veus més sòlides de la literatura catalana actual. Imma Monsó: la narrativa de la ironia i la diferència contextualitza els textos més representatius de l'escriptora–publicats entre el 1996 i el 2004–a partir d'una àmplia anàlisi del seu discurs irònic i la seva defensa de la diferència davant discursos hegemònics. La incisiva interpretació de les seves obres, juntament amb l'ample marc teòric que l'acompanya, converteix aquest volum–el primer monogràfic publicat sobre l'escriptora lleidetana–en una suggerent lectura tant per a acadèmics com per a seguidors de l'obra monsoniana, i en una eina
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallImma Monsó: la narrativa de la ironia i la diferència (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USImma Monsó: la narrativa de la ironia i la diferència (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®84102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406749
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Physical difference, as described in textual form, frequently functions as a metaphor for other types of cultural difference, otherness or, disturbingly, of some negative generality. This is how, for example, diabetes in one of Gabriel García Márquez's characters suggests his greed, excess and venality, rather than merely denoting an actual illness. In Carnal Inscriptions Susan Antebi explores this idea of fictional physical differences and disabilities over the course of several exemplary texts. In her words, 'Textual performance operates here through inconsistencies or gaps in the overarching metaphors that purport to collapse corporeal difference with ethnic, cultural, and gender differences, or with identity as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallCarnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USCarnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®77352026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Sujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406750
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Bermúdez Barrios's Sujetos transnacionales studies three films: Novia que te vea, Miroslava, and Ilona llega con la lluvia. All of them, two Mexican and the other Colombian, were released during the 1990s and include women who are or who have been subjected to marginalization due to their race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Likewise, they were all novels (Rosa Nissán–Novia, Guadalupe Loaeza–Miroslava, and Ávaro Mutis–Ilona) before they were produced as films. The author is not only interested in discussing how these narratives came to be produced as cinema but also analyses arguments she views as important and how they are portrayed on the silver screen.This study is the fruit of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallSujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USSujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®67172026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406751
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The focus of Richard A. Gordon's book is, to use the author's own term, 'colonial films', that is, Latin American historical films that have appropriated and adapted colonial narratives of European and indigenous contact. Analysing films from the silent period to the present day produced in Mexico and Brazil, 'nations that have produced the greatest number of […] colonial films by far', the author shows how their adaptations key into cinematic debates concerning the nation that take place in the arena of revisions of the colonial past (1). The book is a timely contribution to the increasing academic interest in Latin American cinema and also to the growing body of theoretical and critical work on the topic of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallCannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USCannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®72312026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Esas niñas cuando crecen, ¿dónde van a parar? (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406752
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Zulema Moret's monograph provides a study of the Bildungsroman or novela de formación as written by Latin American women in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on works of the 1970s and 1980s. Moret includes as her objects of study novels by a wide range of writers, including Argentinians Griselda Gambaro, Beatriz Guido, Marta Traba, and Susana Silvestre; Puerto Ricans Rosario Ferré and Iris Zavala; the Chilean author Ana María del Río; Colombian author Albalucía Ángel; Venezuelan author Laura Antillano; Ecuadorian author Luz Argentina Chiriboga; and Mexican author Elena Poniatowska.The first chapter is the most accomplished of the book and it provides a good range of reading on existing scholarship on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallEsas niñas cuando crecen, ¿dónde van a parar? (review)2010-12-31text/htmlen-USEsas niñas cuando crecen, ¿dónde van a parar? (review)2010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®67012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31Index to Volume 87
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Chris Harris and Amit Thakkar (eds.), Representations of Men and Masculinities in Latin American Cultures (87.6)Aboal, María López, Una muñeca rota: martirio, pasión y muerte de María Egipcíaca 415Atlee, Carl W., Political Protest in Gómez Manrique's Defunzión del noble cauallero Garçía Laso de la Vega 169Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn, In/sight of Knowledge: Seeing Women in José Saramago's Memorial do Convento and Hélia Correia's Lillias Fraser 843Brown, Matthew, Soldiers and Strawberries: Questioning Military Masculinity in 1860s Colombia 725Cardoso, Humberto Huergo, Algunos lugares oscuros de las Soledades de Góngora. Notas sobre el pasaje de la cetrería 17Carpenter, Victoria, Under My (Editorial) Thumb: Hegemonic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/419/image/coversmallIndex to Volume 872010-12-31text/htmlen-USIndex to Volume 872010-12-312010TWOProject MUSE®207972026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002010-12-31