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Book SynopsisArgues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centres and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through archival research and comparative readings,
The Magellan Fallacy rethinks mainstream mappings of diverse cultures while advocating the creation of a new field of scholarship: global literature in Spanish.
Trade ReviewThe book’s aim is as ambitious as it is timely: that of establishing a new field of global Hispanic studies emphases, one that bypasses the hidebound departmental binary of Peninsular/Latin American, that encompasses significant achievements of Hispanic literature coming out of Asia and Africa. What the author has accomplished is nothing short of a paradigm shift that will produce repercussions throughout 21st-century Hispanic studies."" - Eugenio Matibag, Iowa State University
""This volume serves as a valuable point of departure for the study of a largely unexplored subject: fiction written in Spanish in Equatorial Guinea and the Philippines during and following Spain's colonization . . . Recommended."" - P.W. Manning,
Choice""This is a work masterfully rendered, witty, original in its central thesis, and seminal in its scope. A classic in the making."" - Africa-Asia 2015 Book Prize Committee
