Böcker i Hispanisms-serien

The first major study of the profound impact of international communist politics and culture on Spanish letters

Presenting an overview of Spanish history, this collection of essays provides portraits the female members of the Mendoza family. It deals with a complex society in which women were limited by law, and yet their social status made those laws negotiable. These women challenged the laws of the land and patriarchal assumptions about inferiority.

Cervantes challenges the state's attempt to categorize its subjects by presenting characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion.

A newly discovered treatise by a major European writer

Investigating the cultural and material environment in which Cervantes placed his characters, the author reveals a recurrent preoccupation with the clash of two economic systems: a reenergized feudalism and an incipient capitalism. He examines how the distribution of wealth, and ownership of the means of production permeate Cervantes's fiction.

A concise retelling of the Sephardic Jews' grim story

Setting aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the US image of Spain for more than a century, this title uncovers the roots of Spanish studies to explain why the diversity, vitality, and complexity of Spanish history and culture have been reduced in US accounts to the equivalent of a tourist brochure.

An English translation of Spanish philosopher Zubiri's "estructura dinmica de la realidad".