This paper focuses on an advanced Spanish literature seminar I taught at Kansas State University dedicated entirely to Cervantes's "Don Quijote de la Mancha." In an effort to appeal to twenty-first-century students in rural Kansas, I designed my seminar to explore traditional questions of authorship, translation and reading, metafiction,…

Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya offers a provocative example of postwar cynicism in his 1997 novel "El asco: Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador." By telling the story of Edgardo Vega, an emigrant who returns to El Salvador in the mid-1990s after living in Canada for eighteen years, "El asco" represents the mass exodus…

The Spanish author Carmen Laforet is recognized almost exclusively for her first and seminal novel "Nada" published in 1945. However, her posthumous "Al volver la esquina" (2004), the last of her five novels, is an indispensable example of the author's achievement as a psychological novelist. Yet ten years following its…

In Marcela del Río's science fiction novel "Proceso a Faubritten," utopia comes in the form of eternal life for all of humanity, thanks to Dr. Alexander Faubritten's "Bomba L." This polyphonic work includes diaries by Faubritten and his Mexican lover, María Corona. In my analysis of these two diaries, I will show how…

Cervantes's "novela" creates a complex protagonist due in part to the involvement of the slaves' destructive and creative energies: a linguistic and erotic paradox. Linguistically the female slave foregrounds the historical dichotomy between "ladinos" and "bozales" and the related problematic of conversion,…

This essay reappropriates the segmentary form of the three works of Agustin Fernandez Mallo's "Nocilla" project ("Nocilla Dream" [2006]; "Nocilla Experience" [2008]; "Nocilla Lab" [2009]) en route to an urban reading of its fragmentary structure. The project's interdisciplinary push, overwhelming incorporation of both scientific and…

The article analyzes the portrayal of the male perpetrator of heterosexual domestic violence in a selection of contemporary Spanish texts (novel, drama, and autobiography) that form part of a clearly discernible cultural response to the issue of intimate partner violence in Spain today. It reads the figure of the abuser in conjunction with a range…

Continuing series on contemporary Spanish authors. Covers the writings of Alonso Zamora Vicente, Ramon de Garciasol, Julio Manegat, Concha Castroviejo, Carlos Muniz, and Angel Palomino Jimenez. (DS)

Continuing series on contemporary Spanish authors. Covers writing of Eugenio Montes, Eulalia Galvarriato, Tomas Borras, Eladio Cabanero, Salvador Garcia de Pruneda, and Jesus Torbado. (DS)

Special issue dedicated to the works of Pio Baroja. (DS)

Outlines linguistic philosophy and ideas of Spanish novelist Benito Perez Galdos as expressed by leading characters in his novels; part of a continuing series. (DS)

Works of Emilio Garcia Gomez, Dario Fernandez Florez, Armando Lopez Salinas, Jaime de Arminan, Luis Lopez Anglada, and Carmen Bravo Villasante are analyzed in this continuing series on Spanish authors. (DS)

Continuing series on contemporary authors in Spain. Authors treated are Narciso Alonso Cortes, Manuel Arce, Carmen Llorca, Angel Maria de Lera, Louis Jimenez, Martos and Alfonso Sastre. (DS)

Reviews background and work of contemporary Spanish writers Aquilino Duque, Bartolome Soler, Juan Zaragueta Bengoechea, Juan Guerrero Zamora, Francisco Ayala, and Liberata Masoliver. (DD)