Power, Place and Representation

Bill Richardson is Professor of Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Dublin City University, he has been a visiting professor at several European and American universities. He has published books and articles on Spanish and Latin American literature, translation studies and contemporary Spanish society. His most recent book is Borges and Space (Peter Lang, 2012).Lorraine Kelly is a lecturer in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and has previously lectured at University College Cork, the University of Limerick and the Dublin Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching is primarily in the area of Latin American literature and she has published articles and book chapters on Mexican women writers. She is the co-leader of the ‘Gender, Discourses and Identities’ cluster of the NUI Galway – University of Limerick Gender Research Consortium.

• Contents: Bill Richardson/Lorraine Kelly: Introduction – Ronaldo Munck: La Segunda Independencia: Nationalist Nostalgia or Twenty-First-Century Socialism? – Peadar Kirby: Bolívar’s Dream of Spanish American Unity: Is the ‘New Left’ Finally Realizing It? – Barry Cannon: States of (In)dependence? Democratization and Citizenship during Latin America’s ‘Left Decade’, 2000 - 2010 – Kathy Powell: The Mexican Revolution 100 Years On: Is It Over? – Sarah Hunt: Overcoming Dependency and Reducing Poverty in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua – Mel Boland: A Singular Plurality? Language and Education Issues in Bolivia – Catherine Davies: Gendered Interpretations of Independence Poetry: Mexico and Peru, 1820 - 1822 – Lorraine Kelly: Gender, Corruption and Independence in Roberto Sneider’s Film Adaptation of Arráncame la vida – Armida de la Garza: Interpreting Independence in Latin American Cinema Today: The Digital Option – Catherine Leen: Independent Cinema and Globalization: The Case of Paraguay – David Conlon: Space and the Argentine Republic: Two Lefebvrian Itineraries through the Fiction of Ricardo Piglia – Bill Richardson: Jorges Luis Borges and the Production of (Independent) Space.