Transnational Cervantes

by William Childers

Book Overview

This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442615117
• ISBN13: 9781442615113
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher