Enchanted Dulcinea

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman is currently retired after having taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for 54 years. She has published 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays.Rebecca Marquis is associate professor of Spanish at Gonzaga University.

It comes to no surprise that this welcomed English translation of one of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s best known novels, Enchanted Dulcinea (1992), would be part of a book series for Jewish women in the Americas. While a notable part of her prolific publications is focused on Jewish themes, this novel had not been considered, until now, as one of them. In the book’s introduction, Rebecca Marquis aptly reveals the themes of Jewish Mysticism that lie beneath the surface of Enchanted Dulcinea’s apparent secular plot following three fragmented and intertwined stories about the heroine’s journeys and exiles spanning from the Middle ages to WWII. Marquis highlights the underlying mystical themes that run beneath Muñiz-Huberman’s writing, including echoes of the Shechinah and images from the Hekhalot and Merkavah traditions. Mirroring the author’s crypto-Jewish past, this novel includes a hidden, but deeply rooted connection to the Jewish mystical tradition.

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