New Hispanisms: Literature, Culture, Theory

This collection calls attention to some of the diversity of new approaches within Hispanism, reflecting a growing concern with gender, class, sexuality, and nationality. Sustaining these new developments and demonstrating their transformative effect, the collection contains several re-readings of canonic texts and also acknowledges the emergence of new voices and areas of study. The essays do not merely draw on current theories, but look to extend and refine theoretical discussion. By their preparedness to problematize how texts work and are read, these essays often demand an effort of reengagement with apparently familiar material; in so doing they underline the need for increased self-reflexivity.
Among the texts and authors discussed are Lazarillo de Tormes, La vida es sueño, Los pazos de Ulloa, La Regenta, Dona Bárbara, Almodóvar’s Matador, Garcilaso de la Vega, Pablo Neruda, and the 1898 Generation.
Contributors: John Beverley, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Ruth Anthony El Saffar, Jo Labanyi, Bernard J. McGuirk, Mark I. Millington, Henry W. Sullivan, Paul Julian Smith, and Noel Valis.