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

1. Theory vs. the Humanist Tradition Stemming from Américo Castro

   Anthony J. Close

2. Romance, Ideology, and Iconoclasm in Cervantes

   Anthony J. Cascardi

3. Where Does the Novel Rise? Cultural Hybrids and Cervantine Heresies

   Diana de Armas Wilson

4. Generational Conflicts within Hispanism: Notes from the comedia Wars

   John J. Allen

   Part II. Re/Visioning Cervantes Studies

5. Anatomy of Contemporary Cervantes Studies: A Romance of “Two Cities”

   Charles D. Presberg

6. Cervantes and the Philological School

   Pablo Jauralde Pou

7. The Politics of Identity and the Enigma of Cervantine Genealogy

   Ellen Lokos

8. Cervantes and His Feminist Alliances

   Anne J. Cruz

9. Rereading El amante liberal in the Age of Contrapuntal Sexualities

   Adrienne L. Martín

10. The Jealous and the Curious: Freud, Paranoia and Homosexuality in Cervantine Poetics

    Nicolás Wey-Gómez

    Part III. The Future of Cervantes Studies

11. The Crisis of Hispanism as an Apocalyptic Myth

    George Mariscal

12. The Ideologies of Cervantine Irony: Liberalism, Postmodernism and Beyond

    Alison Parks Weber

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