A new edition to the Hispanic Issues series casts light on mass media productions by Spanish women, tracing the way in which questions of gender and difference are negotiated throughout the 20th century. The volume focuses on the various representations in literature and film of the individual and collective identities of Spanish women. It also examines how this feminine cultural tradition has redefined the concept of Spain's national identity.

This collection of essays traces the history of Portugese literature from the medieval period to the present. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portugese literature to students new to the field and provides insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject.

A groundbreaking collection of essays by Latin American scholars on the theories and practices of postmodernity, allowing them to 'write back' to their Euro-American counterparts.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Elaborates an interdiscursive picture of how medieval Spain has been remembered by various Arab, Jewish, and Hispanic peoples from well before 1492 to the present. The collection breaks with traditional foci on the legacies of separate Iberian communities and their descendants, and on limited, largely textual sets of their related cultural practices. In distinct ways, this collection takes a multi-ethnic and multi-modal approach, departing from sociologist Maurice Halbwachsi premise that collective memories form not within individuals alone, but through the inner and inter-workings of actual...

Of all Latin American poets, Pablo Neruda is arguably the most recognized in the English-speaking world. But while the image of Neruda most frequently produced in this country is the apolitical, romantic poet of 20 Poemas de Amor, the highly political Neruda who wrote Canto general is much less visible. In this collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketing Neruda - and Latin American poetry in general - in the US Renowned and emerging scholars of Neruda, poetry, and cultural criticism examine how the ways in...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th Century.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.