Transnational Cervantes

William Childers is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College.

“Transnational Cervantes is a sophisticated and beautifully written book ... In my judgment, this is not only one of the best books on Cervantes by a young scholar, but one of the best books on Cervantes.” - Edward H. Friedman (Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America) “Childers’s excellent book provides us with ample evidence of how the divisions informing our chosen fields color the way we read the canons that compose them.” - William Egginton (Revista HispÁnica Moderna) “[Transnational Cervantes] is the product of original thinking and outstanding historical research. This is a most welcome contribution to the field of early modern studies, the kind of scholarly work that will stir healthy debate inside the discipline(s) of Hispanism and beyond.” - David R. Castillo (Hispanic Review) “For those of us who write on Cervantes with our focus on the entire planet and our concerns in the only realm of reality that matters – the now, the us – this is a welcome book, a necessary book.” - Julio Baena (Renaissance Quarterly)

• Preface: Transnationalizing CervantesAcknowledgmentsPart One. Decolonizing Cervantes Introduction: The Colonized Imagination Internal Colonialism in Early Modern Spain‘Under my cloak, I kill the king’: Reading and ResistanceLa Mancha as Borderland Cervantes and lo real maravilloso Carpentier, Forcione, and the ‘Persiles’The Marvellous as a Contested Site in European CultureOntological Ambiguity and Generic Hybridity in CervantesCide Hamete Benengeli: The Other WithinConclusion Part Two. Cervantes’ Transnational Romance Pilgrimage and Social Change in Persiles y Sigismunda Feliciana de la Voz: A Secularized Miracle Story‘SegÚn es cristiana la gente’: Antonio de VillaseÑor’sReturn toQuintanar de la OrdenConclusion: The Reader as Pilgrim Turning Spain Inside Out Mapping the Fictional Realms of Persiles y SigismundaTransitions: Toward a Poetics of Social RestructuringA Nation Traversed by Its Borders Part Three. Cervantes Now Remembering the Future: Cervantes and the New Moroccan Immigration to Spain The New Hispano-MuslimsSplicing the Broken Thread An Internal Colony in Sixteenth-Century SpainCervantes’ Moriscas: Yesterday and Tomorrow Chicanoizing Don Quixote ‘Launch against the Windmills!’Three Readers RewritingFrom the Morsico Jofor to the Ghost Dance CultDon Quixote, the Novel, and the Postcolonial World Conclusion: Cervantes and Shakespeare: Toward a Canon of Spanglish Literature Colonial QuixotesShakespeare, Race, and the Spanish InquisitionToward an Americanist Reading of Persiles y SigismundaNotesWorks CitedIndex