The dissertation examines the representations of catastrophe that emerge in Mexico City following the devastating 1985 earthquake and the upheaval of the nineties. The study …
Latin American historiographic metafiction is presently enjoying prominence as the object of unprecedented market success and renewed critical attention. Much has been made in recent …
Jorge Luis Borges' participation in the Spanish literary vanguard of the 1920s constitutes a formative and prolific segment of his career, largely underappreciated within the …
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
This dissertation analyzes historical novels written in Spain and the Spanish peripheries (Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia) in the last fifteen years, focusing on how …
While scholars have examined at length the critical problems of humor and violence in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, rarely have they considered the workings …
Translatio Hierosolymae: The Rhetoric of Jerusalem in Early Modern Spain locates Jerusalem at the heart of a series of social practices and discourses through which …
Throughout 2011, Chile was swept by a wave of protests using performance to communicate demands for educational reform. Ranging from flash mobs to kiss-ins, these …