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Spain in America
Setting aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the U.S. image of Spain for more than a century, this innovative volume uncovers the roots of Spanish studies to explain why the diversity, vitality, and complexity of Spanish history and culture have been reduced in U.S. accounts to the equivalent of a tourist brochure. Spurred by the complex colonial relations between the United States and Spain, the new field of Spanish studies offered a way for the young country to reflect a positive image of itself as a democracy, in contrast with perceived Spanish intolerance and closure. Spain in America investigates the political and historical forces behind this duali...
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
