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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes’ final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory.
Trade Review“I believe this is an important volume that contains essays that are representative of how the reading of Cervantes’ last novel continues to evolve in the twenty-first century.” -- Luis F. Avilés, University of California Irvine *
Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Space and Place Frederick de Armas, "Cervantes’ Hermetic Architectures: The Dangers Outside in Persiles IV" Michael Armstrong-Roche, "The Lucianic Gaze Novelized: The Familiar Made Strange in Persiles" Isabel Lozano Renieblas, "Chastity and Symbolism in the Persiles" Psychic Dimensions Anthony J. Cascardi, "Enigmas of Psychology in the Persiles" William Childers, "Communal Norms and Individuated Desire in Persiles y Sigismunda" Javier Patiño, "Cervantes’ Persiles and Early Modern Theories of Wonder" Visual Effects Marta Albalá Peregrín, "Visual Genres and the Rhetoric of Violence in Cervantes’ Persiles" Patrick Lenaghan, "Illustrating Persiles: A Neoclassic Vision of Cervantes’s Last Novel" Constructive Interruptions David Castillo and William Egginton, "Cervantes’s Treatment of Otherness, Contamination, and Conventional Ideals in Persiles and Other Works" Jacques Lezra, "Imaginary Labor" Marina S. Brownlee, "Interruption and the Fragment: Heliodorus and the Persiles" Works Cited
