Cervantes and/on/in the New World
 edited by Julio Velez-Sainz and Nieves Romero-Diaz

To celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first part of Don Quijote, the University of Massachusetts and Mount Holyoke College co-sponsored a symposium on the Trans-Atlantic approaches to Cervantes. “Cervantes and/on/in the New World” was held in October, 2005. Speakers discussed interdisciplinary approaches and blurred chronological, geographic and generic boundaries when they dealt with the most canonical of all Spanish authors. This book attempts to frame Cervantes within the lens of Trans-Atlanticism in a variety of forms. The essays go from “New World studies” of Cervantes’s works to contemporary American versions of the Novelas Ejemplares or Don Quijote that try to establish a fruitful connection between the old world and the new and between the present and the past. The book is divided in six sections: the present introduction, a conclusion and four clusters of studies: “Cervantes on the New World,” “Cervantes in the New World.” “Re-Imagining Don Quixote: Cervantes in the American Media” and “The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching and Editing Don Quijote.”

Documentación cervantina #29
ISBN 978-1-58871-103-8 (PB) 330 pp. $24.95

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Cervantes and/on/in the New World
Julio Vélez-Sainz

Part I—Cervantes on the New World

Ecology, Difference and Utopia in the Portrayal
of the Gypsy in Cervantes’s La gitanilla
Patricia Ferrer-Medina

Don Quijote y las consecuencias de la creación
del territorio imperial del individuo
Vicente Pérez de León

Part II—Cervantes in the New World

El periplo peruano de don Quijote
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez

Don Quijote en Boston: El Quijote de George Ticknor
Antonio Sánchez-Jiménez

Knights and Cowboys: The Quixotic Course of Empire
Diana de Armas Wilson

Tilting at Windmills: Questions of
Metafiction and Historiography
Isabelle Therriault

Part III—Re-Imagining Don Quixote:
Cervantes in the American Media

Cervantes Takes Some Detours To End Up On Broadway:
Re-Imagining Don Quijote In Man Of La Mancha
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez

Translating Cervantes and Don Quixote
for the US Screens: A Quixotic Enterprise
Nieves Romero-Díaz

Unpossessing Cervantes: A Bilingual Spiral
Flying Circus Performance of Don Quijote by
Double-Edge Theatre
Julio Vélez-Sainz

Part IV. The Trials and Tribulations of
Teaching and Editing Don Quijote

El Quijote y el lector americano
Isaías Lerner

La enseñanza del Quijote en las aulas
de enseñanza de secundaria estadounidenses
Pilar Mesonero-Herrera

The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Don Quijote in the United States
Tom Lathrop

The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Don Quijote in the United States: a Commiserative Response
James Iffland

Conclusion: Cervantes, Don Quijote and the New World: Endless Adventures
Nieves Romero-Díaz