Animal Symbolism in Hispanic Literature

From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Whether axolotl, jaguars, or 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.
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? And how do beasts articulate social unrest and a desire to resist inequality, poverty, and other ills of the modern world that collectively reinforce the status quo?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 from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Spain shed light on the use of animals as symbols and emblems, as well as how they have been employed to construct others as monstrous and less human.

Contributor: Lauren Beck (Edited by), Ailén Cruz (Edited by), Samantha Ruckenstein (Edited by), Adrián Collado Icardo (Contributions by), Ailén Cruz (Contributions by), Alba Devo Colis (Contributions by), Alejandro Ramírez-Méndez (Contributions by), Alejandro Soifer (Contributions by), Elena Campero (Contributions by), Irene Lopez-Rodriguez (Contributions by), Lauren Beck (Contributions by), Odile Cisneros (Contributions by), Penélope Marcela Fernández Izaguirre (Contributions by), Samantha Ruckenstein (Contributions by), Tania Bride (Contributions by)

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