Cervantes Society of America
Newsletter
CSA wishes all of its members the happiest and most productive New Year.
May we attain the peace and security that has eluded us during the violent
and storm-wracked past year.
CSA at the MLA
The
annual meeting of the Society was held on December 28, 2005 at the Washington
Hilton Hotel. The keynote address, “Don Quijote in Western Art
and Thought,” was presented by John J. Allen (University of Kentucky)
and Patricia S. Finch (Centre College). James A. Parr (U. of California,
Riverside), President of the CSA, presided.
Treasurer's Report 2005
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Cervantes
Editor's Report
(summary)
There
was a dramatic increase in the number of submissions to Cervantes due to
the high profile provided by the 400th anniversary of the publication
of the 1605 Don Quixote. According to Managing Editor Fred Jehle,
38 articles (including one review article and one invited lecture) were
submitted. 13 are under consideration, 21 were rejected (many were by
non-specialists and unsuitable for the journal), 1 was withdrawn, and 3 were
accepted.
The
Fall, 2004 issue contained 319 pages (as many or more than any two issues
through 1998), a remembrance of José María Casasayas, and the
first full color cover. The Spring, 2005 issue currently in preparation will
have a cluster of articles on translations of Don
Quixote.
CSA at the MLA 2006
The
topic for the regular session sponsored by the Society at the MLA in 2006
will be “Cervantine Architectures.” Proposals should be sent to
Frederick A. de Armas at the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Chicago, 1050 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637 by
March 1, 2006.
Cervantes at the MLA
Frederick
A. de Armas presided over the annual session sponsored by CSA, “Don
Quijote (1605): Myth and History,” on December 30. The following
papers were presented: “The Reawakening of the Goddess in Don
Quijote Part I,” Timothy J. Ambrose (Indiana U., Southeast); “San
Juan de la Cruz, El Greco, and the Matter of Race in Don Quijote,”
Eric Clifford Graf (U. of Illinois, Urbana); and “Don Quijote I
and History,” Barbara Fuchs (U. of Pennsylvania).
Elsewhere
at the MLA, Cervantes was also under discussion. Jo Labanyi (U. of Southampton)
presided over “Don Quixote and the Romance-Speaking World: Four
Hundred Years.” The papers presented included: “Cervantes and the
Lessons of ‘Minor’ Works: Menina e Moca and Clareo y
Florisea in Don Quijote,” Karina Galperin (U. Torcuato di
Tella, Buenos Aires); “Translating the Narrative Text into Sound and
Spectacle: Don Quijote according to Massenet, Strauss, and Falla,”
Mary Malcolm Gaylord (Harvard U.) and Julia Randel (Hope College); and
“Zoraida's Return: Algerian Views of Cervantes's Captivity,” William
Childers (Brooklyn College). The session entitled “Novelty and the
Nation” featured the paper “Staging Cervantes in Richelieu's France:
Georges de Scudéry's L'amant libéral” by Ellen
Welch (U. of Pennsylvania). Another session was dedicated to the topic
“Cervantes in American Literature,” in which the following studies
were read: “Textual Attitudes: Melville and the Example of Cervantes,”
Bryan T. Scoular (NYU); “Quixotic History: Don Quixote and Diedrich
Knickerbocker,” Jeffrey M. Scraba (Rutgers U.); “Mirror Images:
Mark Twain's Inversion and Fragmentation of Don Quixote in The
Prince and the Pauper,” Susan C. Giráldez (U. of the Pacific);
and “Kathy Acker's Critique of American Identity in Don Quixote:
Which Was a Dream,” Julia C. Paulk (Marquette U.). Finally, Ignacio
E. Navarrete (U. of California, Berkeley) presided over “Cervantes:
The Quijote and Beyond,” during which the following papers were
read: “Dissing the Duchess: Don Quixote and the Crisis of the
Aristocracy,” Anne J. Cruz (U. of Miami); and “The View from Above:
Teichoskopia in Don Quijote I,” Frederick A. de Armas (U. of
Chicago), as well as one presentation not listed in the
program.
Publications by Members
Joan
F. Cammarata has published “Descifrando los códigos de clase,
cultura y poder en el mundo de Cervantes” in Cervantes y su mundo,
ed. Kurt Reichenberger and Darío Fernández Morera (Kassel:
Edition Reichenberger, 2005.2): 83-100.
Other Publications of Interest
Karl
Ludwig-Selig informs us of the following:
Eberhardt
Straub, “On the reception of Don Quijote in Germany and German
Literature.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton (Nov.
5, 2005).
Jesús
Cantera Ortiz de Urbina, Julia Sevilla Muñoz and Manuel Sevilla
Muñoz, Refranes, otras paremias y fraseologismos en Don Quijote
de la Mancha ( Burlington, VT: Ed. Wolfgang Mieden, 2005.
Cervantine Sightings
Also
courtesy of Professor Selig:
An article
on Don Quixote in Spain appeared in the August 28 edition of the Dallas
Morning News.
Professor
Selig himself chastised members of the Columbia College faculty in a letter
to the editor in the September “Columbia College Today” for not
including Don Quixote in their summer reading plans.
Theresa Ann Sears,
Secretary/Treasurer
Cervantes Society of America
Dept. of Romance Languages
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402 USA