UID:
almafu_9959231478102883
Format:
1 online resource (335 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-2163-X
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1-4426-2162-1
Series Statement:
University of Toronto Romance Series
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Part One. Decolonizing Cervantes. Introduction: The Colonized Imagination -- Internal Colonialism in Early Modern Spain -- 'Under my cloak, I kill the king': Reading and Resistance -- La Mancha as Borderland -- Cervantes and lo real maravilloso -- Carpentier, Forcione, and the 'Persiles' -- The Marvellous as a Contested Site in European Culture -- Ontological Ambiguity and Generic Hybridity in Cervantes -- Cide Hamete Benengeli: The Other Within -- Conclusion -- Part Two. Cervantes' Transnational Romance -- Pilgrimage and Social Change in Persiles y Sigismunda -- Feliciana de la Voz: A Secularized Miracle Story -- 'Segin es cristiana la gente': Antonio de Villasefior's Return to Quintanar de la Orden -- Conclusion: The Reader as Pilgrim -- Turning Spain Inside Out -- Mapping the Fictional Realms of Persiles y Sigismunda -- Transitions: Toward a Poetics of Social Restructuring -- A Nation Traversed by Its Borders -- Part Three. Cervantes Now -- Remembering the Future: Cervantes and the New Moroccan Immigration to Spain -- The New Hispano-Muslims -- Splicing the Broken Thread -- An Internal Colony in Sixteenth-Century Spain -- Cervantes' Moriscas: Yesterday and Tomorrow -- Chicanoizing Don Quixote -- 'Launch against the Windmills!' -- Three Readers Rewriting -- From the Morsico Jofor to the Ghost Dance Cult -- Don Quixote, the Novel, and the Postcolonial World -- Conclusion: Cervantes and Shakespeare: Toward a Canon of Spanglish Literature -- Colonial Quixotes -- Shakespeare, Race, and the Spanish Inquisition -- Toward an Americanist Reading of Persiles y Sigismunda.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9045-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-1511-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442621626
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621626
