Animal symbolism in Hispanic literature : from the sixteenth century to the present day / edited by Lauren Beck, Ailén Cruz, and Samantha Penina Ruckenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Lauren, editor.

Cruz, Ailén, editor.

Ruckenstein, Samantha Penina, editor.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 413.

Colección Támesis. Serie A: Monografías ; 413

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Animals in literature.

Symbolism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Tamesis Books, 2026.

Summary:

Whether unicorns, phoenix, and chimera, or axolotl, jaguars, and giant snakes, animals have often had the human experience grafted onto them, in a conscious or unconscious reflection of a society's beliefs, ambitions, and inequalities. This volume seeks to explore different representations of real and imaginary animals across Hispanic literary production from the early modern era to the present day in order to gain a better understanding of how they serve as projections of human identities, knowledge, values, and vices. How do beasts enable the colonizing gaze and its reaches? How might beasts offer a means of decolonizing the Hispanophone world? Working to better understand how Spanish and Latin American authors, illustrators, and graphic artists have understood animals and beasts, and how they interacted with them, contributors shed light on the use of animals as symbols and emblems.

Contents:

Front Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Introduction Animal Symbolism in Hispanic Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present D

Part I Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries - The First Proverbial Transatlantic Zoo

1 The Transatlantic Bestiaries of Felipe Guamán Poma (Waman Puma), c. 1615

2 Monsters, American Animals, and Mirabilia in Gerónimo de Huerta and his Translation of the Natura

3 (In)Human Nature: Discourses over the Distinctions between Man and Beast in the Indigenous-Langu

4 "La natural inclinación se olvida:" Animal Transformation in Cervantes

Part II Twentieth Century - Prowling for Pathways Toward a New Future

5 Uncanny Urodeles: The Case of Julio Cortázar's "Axolotl"

6 Animal Skins/Human Souls: Figurations of the Jaguar in Contemporary Brazilian and Spanish Americ

7 Of Nahuals and Angels: Neoliberal Reinterpretations and Transnational Mythology in Édgar Clément'

8 "Fausto" and Marina: Cats, Sickness, and Twentieth-Century Spain

Part III: Twenty-First Century - In the Beast's Clothing

9 Animal Adventures for Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's China Iron

10 Colonizing Monsters and Decolonizing Beasts: The Case of Mariana Enríquez's Our Share of Night

11 Forms of the Beast: The Figure of the Werewolf in Three Recent Mexican Novels

12 Animal Metaphors and Gender Violence in Contemporary Spain: (Non)Fictional Narratives

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80543-985-5

1-80543-984-7

9781805439844

OCLC:

1564372835