Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies
Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Carroll B. Johnson
Addresses the present status of Cervantes studies in light of the so-called culture wars fought between those who adhere to liberal-humanist and/or historicist readings and those whose work is guided by avant-garde, poststructuralist theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Carroll B. Johnson
Part I. Cervantismo and the Crisis of Hispanism
Chapter 1
Theory vs. the Humanist Tradition Stemming from Américo Castro
Anthony J. Close
Chapter 2
Romance, Ideology, and Iconoclasm in Cervantes
Anthony J. Cascardi
Chapter 3
Where Does the Novel Rise? Cultural Hybrids and Cervantine Heresies
Diana de Armas Wilson
Chapter 4
Generational Conflicts within Hispanism: Notes from the comedia Wars
John J. Allen
Part II. Re/Visioning Cervantes Studies
Chapter 5
Anatomy of Contemporary Cervantes Studies: A Romance of “Two Cities”
Charles D. Presberg
Chapter 6
Cervantes and the Philological School
Pablo Jauralde Pou
Chapter 7
The Politics of Identity and the Enigma of Cervantine Genealogy
Ellen Lokos
Chapter 8
Cervantes and His Feminist Alliances
Anne J. Cruz
Chapter 9
Rereading El amante liberal in the Age of Contrapuntal Sexualities
Adrienne L. Martín
Chapter 10
The Jealous and the Curious: Freud, Paranoia and Homosexuality in Cervantine Poetics
Nicolás Wey-Gómez
Part III. The Future of Cervantes Studies
Chapter 11
The Crisis of Hispanism as an Apocalyptic Myth
George Mariscal
Chapter 12
The Ideologies of Cervantine Irony: Liberalism, Postmodernism and Beyond
Alison Parks Weber
Chapter 13
"Cervantismo" as Social Praxis in the Neo-Post Age: Are We Kidding Ourselves?
James Iffland
Afterword
Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies
David Castillo and Nicholas Spadaccini