The Editor: Stanley Black is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, where he also completed his doctorate on the work of the contemporary Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo. He is now Senior Lecturer at the University of Ulster where, since 1987, he has taught Spanish culture, politics and society. His research interests lie in the areas of the contemporary Spanish novel, literary theory, autobiography, Spanish history and politics and Spanish cinema. He is the author of Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion (2001) and is currently co-authoring a history of Spain since 1939.

• Contents: Stanley Black: Introduction – Juan Goytisolo: In Praise of Non-profitable Knowledge – Linda Gould Levine: Confessions of a Goytisolo Critic: Who’s Reading - and Creating - Whom? – Stuart Davis: Reading Author and Text: Juan Goytisolo and Makbara – Stanley Black: Fictions of the Self: Autobiography in the Fiction of Juan Goytisolo – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Ventriloquism and Double-Voiced Discourse in Juan Goytisolo’s Literary Criticism: The Case of José María Blanco White – Marco Kunz: Egocentrism and Polycentric Writing: the Inscription of the Author in Las semanas del jardín – Randolph D. Pope: The Paradox of the Inimitable Model: Carajicomedia and the Shape of Life – Peter Bush: Translation and the Necessity of Creation: Juan Goytisolo’s A Cock-Eyed Comedy – Ángel Sahuquillo: To Cervantise. Homing, Heritage and Queer Ethics in Goytisolo’s Carajicomedia: A Mestizo and/or Dis(s)identifying Essay (parts academic, queer and ironic) Concerning Novels and Lives of Little Exemplarity – Brigitte Adriaensen: Conflicting Ironies in Juan Goytisolo’s Novels.