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Odile Cisneros

Blasco Ibáñez y la mujer estadounidense. Consideraciones sobre La reina Calafia, un nuevo prototipo femenino en la narrativa del autor

Beatriz Cobeta
This article argues that Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s encounter with American women led him to develop new female character types in his novels. Blasco Ibáñez achieved great success in the U.S., where he traveled extensively in 1919-20 promoting his work. I argue that the independence of the American women he met, which at first he found outrageous, led him to rethink the role of women in his writing. Prior to this, his female characters conformed to the stereotypes of the devoted wife or the femme fatale. In subsequent works, such as the novel La reina Calafia, he explored representing a new kind of modern woman.

Apostillas a la crisis monetaria en la poesía dramática barroca

Jorge Ferreira Barrocal
This essay provides commentary on certain passages from seventeenth-century dramatic poetry that refer to certain phenomena of the monetary crisis that had previously been ignored. In the selection of texts considered, playwrights allude to the following details of the contemporary fiscal context: the seigniorage tax, the mass minting of copper coins, the mutation of currency values, the speculation generated by coin exchange, and the decline in local currency as a result of the introduction of foreign currency. It can be seen that the subject was approached through ingenious associations, whose conceptual density can be perceived from the events recorded by monetary historiography.

¡Bienvenido, Míster Marshall! y la función de la música en el contexto histórico de la transformación de la españolada

Benito Gómez Madrid
Armed with humor and music, the directors of Welcome Mr. Marshall! succeed in misleading censors to carry out their main purpose: to criticize. The argument of a Castilian People who disguise themselves as Andalusians in the hope of receiving favors from the Americans offers the opportunity to make various recriminations without much effort. However, it will be the role of the music, in the context of the evolution of the españolada genre that this film was supposed to be, that will allow a suggestive hermeneutical effort to be fully completed.

Rumours of Wars and Disasters: José Emilio Pacheco in Vancouver

Zane Koss
This essay reads poems by José Emilio Pacheco, a prominent twentieth-century Mexican poet, about his time in Vancouver, Canada, where he worked as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in 1969 and 1970. These poems operate through a poetic speaker caught in a state of “in-between-ness” – at once exiled, nostalgic, and unmoored yet actively engaged in denouncing state-sponsored terrorism, war, and environmental destruction from a position defined by spatial, temporal, and jurisdictional ambiguity and instability. Reading Pacheco’s “Canadian” poems, in turn, offers a new perspective on his more canonical poetry.

García de la Huerta entre la literatura y la historiografía: los Retratos de los Reyes de España

Ismael López Martín
Although the works of historical content that Vicente García de la Huerta wrote were not many, his treatment of this discipline is not sufficiently studied. This article focuses on a collective work in which he participated, the Retratos de los Reyes de España, evaluating the causes that led to its writing, the choice of Huerta to create the summaries of the royal lives, and the methodological inaccuracies he fell prey to as a result of not mastering the historiographic method of the Enlightenment.

Greco-Gauchos: National Regeneration and Fascist Hellenism in Leopoldo Lugones

Brais Outes-León
This study explores the centrality of Hellenism within the political evolution towards authoritarianism of Argentine intellectual Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938). Starting with his vindication of the Hellenist filiation of Argentina in El payador (1916) as a foundational myth of national identity, this analysis shows how the discursive articulation of a Fascist Hellenism comes to full fruition in Estudios helénicos (1924) and Nuevos estudios helénicos (1928). By combining philology and political discourse, in these two volumes Lugones articulates a Fascist project of national regeneration that vindicates the masculine and militaristic values of Homeric epic heroism as antidote against liberal democracy.

La repetición y sus diversos tipos en la General estoria de Alfonso X el Sabio

Enrique Pato
This article analyzes repetition as a method of historiographical inquiry in Alfonso X the Wise’s General estoria. It examines how repeated narratives, sources, moral judgments, and narrative frameworks contribute to the construction, transmission, and reinterpretation of historical discourse. These forms of repetition reveal the mechanisms by which universal history is rewritten, organized, and consolidated through structures that give coherence to the past. The recurrence of sources and moral interpretations demonstrates the persistence of interpretive traditions, while repeated narrative schemes reinforce and expand historical versions. Overall, repetition functions as a structural, didactic, and theological device, enabling the work to integrate diverse materials and to shape a macro-narrative of historical and moral memory. The study concludes with a comparison between the first and fourth parts of the General estoria, showing a shift from theological exegesis toward a cultural exegesis of the world, where repetition becomes a principle of global reading and understanding.

España y América: letras de ida y vuelta

Jaime Olmedo Ramos

JOSÉ COLMEIRO. Cruces de fronteras: globalización, transnacionalidad y poshispanismo. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Veuvert, 2021. 376 pp.

Michael Aronna

CANDELAS GALA. La emboscada postpoética de Agustín Fernández Mallo: física, cognición, contemporaneidad, entropía. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2025. 285 pp.

Jesse Barker

SUZANNE JILL LEVINE. Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 184 pp.

María Constanza Guzmán

LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA. Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin America. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2025. 416 pp.

Dan Russek
Reseña de Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin America de Lois Parkinson Zamora.

SONIA VELÁZQUEZ. Promiscuous Grace. Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2023. 232 pp.

Rachel Schmidt

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