Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and coordinator of Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.

• AcknowledgementsForeword Introduction: Paradigm Shifts and Iberia’s Evolution: A Transtheoretical Framework for the Poetry of Blanca AndreuChapter I: A New Iberian Mysticism Chapter II: The Revived Galician PoeticChapter III: The Beginning of the Surrealist Mystic in De una niña de provincias que vino a vivir en un ChagallChapter IV: The Mystic’s World: Mystical Symbolism and Luso-Galician Identity in La tierra transparenteChapter V: The Re-incorporation of Blanca Andreu’s poetry in the Paradigm ShiftAppendixWorks CitedIndexAbout the Author

. . .Simon reincorporates Andreu in the Iberian paradigm. Her work is successfully reframed as part of the pos-novísimo generation of female writers and within the multiple self-identities in contemporary Spain. Combining of the mystical process with deconstruction is a uniquely Iberian discourse of the 1980s and after, and the author successfully outlines the goals of the field as it addresses the inadequacies of purely national literary canons, and he demonstrates this through his study of Andreu, as there is a complexity to literary phenomena extending beyond the nation.