Julio Baena offers an analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. He focuses special attention on the first chapter, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel.

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural...

This book, written in Spanish, explores an understudied aspect of Hispanic culture: the relationship between dramatic texts and their cinematic adaptations. It examines the transposition of form and ideology in cinematic versions of twentieth-century Spanish plays by Carlos Arniches, Ramon del Valle Inclan, Federico Garcia Lorca, Victor Ruiz Iriarte, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Fernando Fernan Gomez, and Jose Sanchis Sinisterra.

The matters addressed include a historic overview of the relationship between cinema and theater in Spain, a comparative study of the principles governing these...