Transnational Cervantes

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American fiction of the past half century.In order to construct his new context for reading Cervantes, Childers proceeds in three distinct phases. First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. Second, Childers provides an innovative reading of The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda as a transnational romance, exploring cultural boundaries and the hybridization of identities. Finally, Childers explores traces of and similarities to Cervantes in contemporary fiction.Theoretically eclectic and methodologically innovative, Transnational Cervantes opens up many avenues for research and debate, aiming to bring Cervantes' writings forward into the brave new world of our postcolonial age.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-05-07
Mått157 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUniversity of Toronto Romance Series
Antal sidor334
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442615113
UtmärkelserWinner of Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize 2006 (United States)

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Preface: Transnationalizing CervantesAcknowledgmentsPart One. Decolonizing Cervantes Introduction: The Colonized Imagination Internal Colonialism in Early Modern Spain‘Under my cloak, I kill the king’: Reading and ResistanceLa Mancha as Borderland Cervantes and lo real maravilloso Carpentier, Forcione, and the ‘Persiles’The Marvellous as a Contested Site in European CultureOntological Ambiguity and Generic Hybridity in CervantesCide Hamete Benengeli: The Other WithinConclusion Part Two. Cervantes’ Transnational Romance Pilgrimage and Social Change in Persiles y Sigismunda Feliciana de la Voz: A Secularized Miracle Story‘SegÚn es cristiana la gente’: Antonio de VillaseÑor’sReturn toQuintanar de la OrdenConclusion: The Reader as Pilgrim Turning Spain Inside Out Mapping the Fictional Realms of Persiles y SigismundaTransitions: Toward a Poetics of Social RestructuringA Nation Traversed by Its Borders Part Three. Cervantes Now Remembering the Future: Cervantes and the New Moroccan Immigration to Spain The New Hispano-MuslimsSplicing the Broken Thread An Internal Colony in Sixteenth-Century SpainCervantes’ Moriscas: Yesterday and Tomorrow Chicanoizing Don Quixote ‘Launch against the Windmills!’Three Readers RewritingFrom the Morsico Jofor to the Ghost Dance CultDon Quixote, the Novel, and the Postcolonial World Conclusion: Cervantes and Shakespeare: Toward a Canon of Spanglish Literature Colonial QuixotesShakespeare, Race, and the Spanish InquisitionToward an Americanist Reading of Persiles y SigismundaNotesWorks CitedIndex

“Transnational Cervantes is a sophisticated and beautifully written book ... In my judgment, this is not only one of the best books on Cervantes by a young scholar, but one of the best books on Cervantes.” - Edward H. Friedman (Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America) “Childers’s excellent book provides us with ample evidence of how the divisions informing our chosen fields color the way we read the canons that compose them.” - William Egginton (Revista HispÁnica Moderna) “[Transnational Cervantes] is the product of original thinking and outstanding historical research. This is a most welcome contribution to the field of early modern studies, the kind of scholarly work that will stir healthy debate inside the discipline(s) of Hispanism and beyond.” - David R. Castillo (Hispanic Review) “For those of us who write on Cervantes with our focus on the entire planet and our concerns in the only realm of reality that matters – the now, the us – this is a welcome book, a necessary book.” - Julio Baena (Renaissance Quarterly)