Review of Juan E. Tazón Salces and Isabel Carrera Suárez, eds., "Post-Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations" (Studies in Comparative Literature 45)
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ABSTRACT:
Further details of book: Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 239 pp, 2005. Full review text on-line at URL indicated above; edited extracts follow.
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It is now a commonplace to state that Spanish is one of the handful of languages capable of rivalling English at global level, and, indeed, to praise the vitality and dynamism of Spanish-speaking cultures in the contemporary world. However, detailed and rigorous comparative studies of the two language and cultural systems (or polysystems), Hispanophone and Anglophone, in their multiple synchronic and diachronic manifestations remain relatively rare. The volume under review thus appears as the concretisation (to a reasonable degree successful) of a valuable and necessary effort.
What we have before us is a collection of twelve essays on disparate subjects falling (mostly) within the broad area of Anglo/Hispanophone cultural relations, preceded by a brief editorial introduction. All the articles are in English. The spirit of intercultural dialogue underlying the project as a whole is witnessed from the beginning by the dedication to Patricia Shaw, formerly of the University of Oviedo and a key figure in the development of English Studies in Spain, "who first crossed borders and encouraged us all to follow."
In their introduction, the editors draw attention to the "relatively scarce crossing of [the English-Spanish] language boundaries in cultural analyses even today," stressing that "there is still a vast terrain to be explored." The contributions have turned out, the editors note, to focus around "themes which relate to past historical connections and to a post/imperial present," offering a series of studies (three historical, eight literary and one cinematic) around a triad of key temporal moments: the colonial epoch in the Americas; the period around the Spanish Civil War; and the globalised contemporary environment
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