Newsletter
Cervantes Society of
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Greetings from east central Kansas. There is much to report and announce,
and so we will get right to it.
The papers presented at the January 22-24,
1998, CSA meeting in Los Angeles (graciously hosted by Prof. Carroll Johnson
and UCLA) were the following: Theresa Ann Sears gave the plenary address,
“Sacrificial Lambs and Domestic Goddesses, or Did Cervantes Write
‘Chick Lit’?” The shorter papers were N. Spadaccini &
D. Castillo, “El antiutopismo el los Trabajos de Persiles y
Sigismunda. Cervantes y el cervantismo actual”; R. ter Horst,
“Walter Scott and the Politicization of the Cervantine Fiction”;
S. Wagschal, “Jewish Jealousy, Christian Love: The Religious Conversion
of El celoso extremeño and the Dishonoring of the comedia
de honor”; A. Molina, “Rhetoric of Captivity, Violence and
Empire in Cervantes”; D. Apahidean, “Espacio geográfico
y espacio textual en El amante liberal”; W. H. Clamurro,
“Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares: Parables of Empire”; J.
V. Ricapito, “After Post-Structuralism, Formalism: Narratological Aspects
of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares;” C. Oriel, “Speaking the
Subject: How Don Quixote Does Things with Words”; L. F. Wilson, “The
Illusion of Multiple Narrators in La ilustre fregona”; A. Burch,
“Narrative Voices in Don Quijote: A Metacritique of Haley, El
Saffar, and Allen”; J. A. Parr, “Afterthoughts, with Some
Forebodings”; H. W. Sullivan, “Cervantes's Interest in Paranoid
Psychosis”; I. Amat, “What's in a Nose? Don Quixote, Sansón
Carrasco and Doubling”; P. del Carmen Tirado, “From Fun to Foul:
Translations of the Scatological in the Quijote, I, 20”; E. Urbina,
“Historias verdaderas y la verdad de la historia: Fernando Arrabal vs.
Stephen Marlowe”; L. A. Murillo, “Cervantes and Slavery”;
D. Eisenberg, “Was Cervantes a Homosexual?”; A. J. Cárdenas,
“Sleight of Hand, Tongue or Pen: Dog Birth in Cervantes's Coloquio
de los perros”; G. A. Shipley, “Airing Sancho's Feces”;
H. Mancing, “Prototypes of Genre in Cervantes's Novelas
ejemplares”; L. Avilés, “Enigma de un velo y metonimias
discursivas en el episodio del cautivo”; R. Schmidt, “Perspective
and Perspectivism in Dalí's Images of Don Quixote”; E.
Rodríguez Cepeda, “Sobre el orden de la escritura en el primer
Quijote (1605)”; J. Aladro, “Tirante el Blanco y Don Quijote:
caballeros que duermen y mueren en sus camas”; and J. D. Fogelquist,
“History, Historiography and Poetics in Don Quijote.”
Minutes of the Executive Council meeting, 22 January 1998
Present were C.B. Johnson (Pres.), G. Shipley,
E. Urbina, H. Mancing, M. McGaha, and W. Clamurro.
The meeting was called to order by C.B. Johnson
at 1pm. The minutes of the previous two meetings (Dec. '96) were read and
approved, as corrected.
The Treasurer's Report (attached at end of
this Newsletter) was presented. The problem of how to handle cases of memberships
several years in arrears was discussed, and it was decided to try one more
time to notify those members substantially behind in dues payments and urge
them to become current; notifications would go out with V18, no. 1 of the
journal. Clamurro also announced the results of the elections for At-Large
and Regional delegates to the Executive Council; those elected are as follows:
At-Large delegates are R. Flores, E. Bergmann, H. Sieber, M. Gerli, and C.
Connor. The five regional delegates are P. Kenworthy (NE), L.Gorfkle (SE),
N. Davis (MW), J. Ricapito (SW), and G. Mariscal (PC).
Prof. McGaha gave the Editor's Report (attached
after these minutes). There was a discussion of the process for the selecting
of future Editors of the journal. It was suggested that Prof. McGaha write
a description of the editor's duties to be published in the next two newsletters,
along with the announcement of the search for the new editor (reproduced
below).
The question of the Bibliography was brought
up. E. Urbina informed us that the 1997 edition of the Cervantes bibliography
came out under the support of, and published by, the Centro de Estudios
Cervantinos (Alcalá) and not as a part of the CSA's projects (as in
1996). It was suggested that we consider collaborating or co-sponsoring with
the CEC for the annual bibliography. With this in mind, we would then routinely
have three numbers of each volume rather than two; consequently, and pending
the formalizing of this collaboration, the council decided that yearly dues
and subscription rates would be increased slightly in certain categories:
institutional and library rates would go from $40 to $50; regular individual
dues would rise from $20 to $25; student dues would remain unchanged ($10).
Urbina mentioned some future bibliographical projects and grant applications
relating to the “Cervantes Project” of Texas A & M Univ., including
the electronic bibliography and a “virtual” or electronic edition
of Don Quijote.
The status of the new Cervantes web site was
discussed (this project has been undertaken by Prof. G. Díaz Migoyo);
but no one had yet had any direct experience with or observation of the web
site.
C. B. Johnson presented a suggestion (sent
in by Prof. G. Stagg) for a life-membership policy; this would involve an
initial payment of a large sum of money, which would then be put into an
endowment, with the earned interest being used for the regular yearly expenses
of the society. The suggestion was discussed, but we felt that administering
this sort of endowment would be, at this time, impractical, and so we rejected
the idea. However, it was suggested that we reduce the yearly dues for emeriti
members (from $20 to $10) and that the Executive Council make awards of life-time
memberships (with exemption from dues) to one or two senior and distinguished
members each year. These two policies were moved, seconded, and approved
by unanimous vote.
The Council brought up the issue of the vacancy
in the CSA Vice Presidency. It was suggested that the Council propose names
of possible candidates, and then that these names be brought to the Open
Meeting for approval and further nominations from the floor. The names suggested
included E. Friedman, M. Gerli, J. Ricapito, H. Sieber, and D. Wilson.
It was decided that the next Executive Council
meeting would take place at the upcoming MLA Convention, December 1998 in
San Francisco.
The meeting was adjourned at 2pm.
Minutes of the Open Business meeting, 24 January 1998
The meeting was called to order by Pres. Johnson
at 4:25pm. The minutes of the previous meetings were presented, the announcements
and reports from the Executive Council meeting were reiterated (see above).
C. B. Johnson brought up the question of the
journal editor, noting that M. McGaha's term ends with the end of 1999. The
decisions of the executive council concerning procedures for finding the
next editor were announced. The Secretary then announced the winners of the
Executive Council delegate election.
The problem of urgently needing a V.P. (given
that the V.P. is charged with organizing the CSA's programs, panels at MLA,
etc.) was presented. The names suggested by the Executive Council were announced
and then the floor was opened for more nominations. J. Parr nominated H.
Mancing; this was seconded and approved. L. Murillo nominated J. Parr; this
was seconded and approved. With no further nominations, the nominations were
closed. D. Eisenberg moved that there be a run-off election between the two
top vote-getters if no one received 40% or more of the total vote; motion
seconded by H. Sullivan, and approved unanimously.
C. B. Johnson announced that, until the new
V.P. was in place, he would collect all proposals, abstracts, etc., for the
CSA panel to be held at the San Francisco MLA convention.
Johnson brought up the question of the need
to find a new Secretary-Treasurer (W. Clamurro has agreed to continue past
the nominal end of his term, until a new person is found); it was decided
that Clamurro would publish in the newsletter a description of the
Secretary-Treasurer's duties. Nominations and expressions of interest should
be forwarded to Prof. Johnson.
The information and tentative decisions arrived
at during the Executive Council meeting, concerning the future of the annual
bibliography, collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, etc.,
were presented; also the suggestion that dues for emeriti be reduced, along
with the proposal for one or two person designated (each year) as honorary
life members was presented. The consensus of those present supported these
as acceptable ideas.
Johnson brought up the question of the relatively
small number of submissions to the journal; the possible effects (both positive
and negative) of the long-standing policy of blind submissions was discussed.
Some have argued that this policy discourages senior scholars, especially
those from abroad. The common “misperception” that submission is
limited to CSA members (which is not the case; non-member may indeed
submit articles) was discussed. M. McGaha gave a brief history of the blind
submissions policy, adding that, in fact, other modes of attracting submissions
are employed, e.g., special requests for articles from senior scholars, the
publication of our own plenary papers, publication of selected conference
proceedings, etc. Much discussion ensued; but the final consensus was that
the blind submission policy was not a problem grave enough for us to make
a change at this time.
Johnson suggested that in addition to the annual
issue in which the CSA's plenary address would be (obligatorily) published,
in the other issue there be a requested article from a distinguished scholar.
The consensus of those present was that this, too, is a good idea.
D. Eisenberg brought up the idea of publishing
the journal and the newsletter on the web site of H-CERVANTES; he proposed
putting the contents of the journal on the web site. The sense of those present
was that this was worth exploring. The themes for the CSA panel at the upcoming
MLA meeting were discussed, and it was agreed that the topic would be the
lesser studied of the Novelas ejemplares, and specifically Las
dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia.
The question of maintaining a CSA presence
at the annual MLA Convention was brought up. Clamurro suggested that there
be a CSA presence each year at the MLA but that the business meetings be
at MLA only on alternate years, if there could be a January meeting of the
CSA in the “off” year. Much discussion ensued. The consensus was
that the Executive Council should entertain the idea of not having
the Open Business meeting at the MLA (and instead having it every other year
at the non-MLA site), but maintaining the CSA presence as (1) a panel and
(2) a Cash Bar at all MLA meetings.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:45pm.
Here follows Prof. McGaha's Editor's Report:
Sixteen articles were submitted to
Cervantes in 1997—four more than we received the previous year.
On the advice of the Editorial Board, I rejected six of those articles; accepted
nine; and recommended that three be significantly revised and resubmitted.
I have recently received a revised version of one of those and am awaiting
the reader's report on it. Additionally, we received a revised version of
an article that had originally been submitted in May 1996; the new version
has been accepted for publication. Hence, the total number of articles accepted
in 1997 was ten. This is exactly on target. We usually publish about ten
articles a year, one of which is the commissioned plenary address given at
the CSA General Business meeting.
The Spring 1997 issue
was a special one containing selected papers from the International Colloquium
on Perspectives on Cervantes Studies in Honor of José María
Casasayas held in Argamasilla de Alba in November 1996, and was guest-edited
by José Ramón Fernández de Cano y Martín. It
contained eight articles and two notes. The Ayuntamiento of Argamasilla purchased
250 copies of the issue for distribution in Spain—125 regular copies,
and another 125 with the poster announcing the colloquium on the cover. I
have tentatively agreed to publish selected papers from the VIII Coloquio
Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, scheduled to take
place in El Toboso on April 23-26, 1998.
The Fall 1997 issue
was a regular one containing four articles, four notes, and three items in
the “Forum” section, two of which were an exchange between Pierre
Ullman and R. M. Flores concerning one of the preliminary poems to the 1605
Don Quijote. In 1997 the Book Review section of the journal, under
the able direction of Edward Friedman, published nine reviews. Both issues
of the journal published in 1997 were considerably longer than usual; Volume
17 totaled 375 pages—120 pages more than the previous year (exclusive
of the Bibliography), making it the longest volume in the journal's
history.
When I learned that Peter Dunn was planning
to retire at the end of last year, I decided to make the
Spring 1998 issue a Festschrift honoring
him. I invited Prof. Mary Gaylord to serve as guest editor of the issue,
since she was Peter's student and knows many of his other former students
and colleagues. She enthusiastically accepted the invitation, and I sent
her the specifications for the issue with a deadline of September 1, 1997,
for receipt of the manuscript. In August she notified me that she would be
unable to meet that deadline; some of the contributors had still not finished
writing their articles, and Mary herself had been unable to work on the
copy-editing because of illness in her family. She asked for an extension
to October 1, which I was happy to grant. The last week in September, she
informed me that she would be unable to meet that deadline. We then decided
to postpone publication of the Festschrift till Fall 1998 and set
a new deadline of March 1, 1998.
I hastily put together a regular issue, using
the materials I had on hand. The Spring 1998 issue
will contain the address that Henry Sullivan gave at the 1996 CSA meeting,
and articles by Rosalie Hernández Pecoraro, Barbara Simerka, Luis
Avilés, Shifra Armon, and Diane Sieber; as well as a note by R. M.
Flores and three book reviews. It will be 150 pages long. I expect it to
be ready for distribution by mid-March.
I have already received two articles since
January 1, 1998, so the new year is off to a good start. It has been a pleasure
and a privilege to serve as Editor of Cervantes during the past year,
and I am very grateful to the members of the Editorial Board for their careful
and conscientious work.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael McGaha
Since M. McGaha's term as Editor of Cervantes ends in December 1999,
the Executive Council is soliciting applications from members interested
in editing the journal beginning in January 2000. Candidates should be
distinguished Cervantes scholars and should have significant editing experience.
Prof. McGaha estimates that the job requires a commitment of about eight
hours per week. It is expected that the editor's institution will provide
sufficient released time so that all editorial work can be done in a timely
and efficient manner. Additionally, the editor's institution is expected
to cover all office expenses (telephone, postage, and secretarial assistance).
Applications should therefore include a letter from the candidate's dean
or department chair expressing the institution's commitment to provide such
support.
To give a sense of what is involved, Prof.
McGaha provides the following job description, based on his own experiences
and procedures:
1. Read every article submitted to Cervantes within twenty-four hours
of its arrival. Correct errors in grammar, punctuation, style, and documentation
in red ink. Select an Associate Editor to whom to send the article for
evaluation. The Associate Editor should have expertise in the subject of
the article, but her/his own work should not be cited or discussed in it.
Forward the corrected copy to the Associate Editor and send the author a
letter of acknowledgment.
2. Record in a logbook the author's name, title of article, and date received,
together with the name of the Associate Editor to whom it was sent.
3. Retain the second copy of the article in a file marked “under
consideration.”
4. When the Associate Editor's evaluation arrives, record her/his recommendation
in the logbook, and mail a copy of her/his report to the author with a letter
informing the author of the decision and the approximate date of publication.
Associate Editors are expected to send their evaluations within six weeks
of receiving an article; if they do not, the editor must remind them to do
so.
5. When an article is recommended for publication, request that the author
make any necessary corrections, and then submit a final version (both hard
copy and diskette, indicating the program used). Also request an abstract
of 100-150 words (if the article is in English, the abstract must be in Spanish,
and vice-versa).
6. When the final version arrives, file it under “accepted for
publication.”
7. Materials for the two annual issues are usually sent to the typesetters
the first week in February (for the following fall issue) and the first week
in August (for the following spring issue). As soon as all materials for
an issue are on hand, the Editor asks the Book Review Editor to the reviews
for the issue. Then the Editor decides the order in which the articles, notes,
and reviews are to be published; checks the masthead to ensure that it is
up to date; selects an illustration for the cover; and copy-edits the issue,
inserting the proper divisions (articles, notes, forum, reviews) in the
appropriate places, and making sure that the titles and authors' names appear
where they should. Then type the Table of Contents exactly as it will appear
in the published version and forward all these materials to the typesetters.
8. When the first proofs arrive from the typesetters, send each to its respective
author for correction (using red ink and standard proofreaders' symbols.
When the proofs are returned, make sure that all corrections have been made
properly (corrections made in Spanish must be translated into English for
the typesetters).
9. Return the corrected proofs to the typesetters. When the page proofs arrive,
check all corrections carefully against those made in the proofs sent to
the authors and return the manuscript to the typesetters, informing them
of any corrections that still need to be made.
10. When the final proofs arrive from the typesetters, check them again,
then sign the release form, and ask the typesetters to forward the camera-ready
copy to the printers. Write a letter to the printers telling how many copies
to print and giving a complete list of authors' names and addresses, so that
they can be sent offprints. Ask the Secretary-Treasurer to prepare the mailing
labels for the issue so that they can be sent to the printers by the time
the issue is ready for distribution.
11. Forward all invoices for printing and typesetting promptly to the
Secretary-Treasurer for payment.
12. When an issue is published, the extra copies are sent to the Editor,
who then forwards twenty copies to the Secretary-Treasurer, who is responsible
for replacing issues lost in the mail. From time to time, the Secretary-Treasurer
will request additional copies of a back issue to fulfill orders.
13. The Editor maintains the back issues in good order. This requires
availability of considerable storage space.
14. The Editor is also responsible for filling out and returning forms concerning
the journal's statistics for directories of periodicals published by the
MLA, RJ Booker, etc.
15. The Editor may on occasion arrange to publish selected papers from
conferences or solicit articles from distinguished scholars.
16. The Editor is responsible for filling vacancies on the Editorial Board.
It is important that the Editorial Board reflect a broad spectrum of critical
views and be balanced in gender insofar as possible.
17. The Editor is expected to submit an annual report to the CSA Executive
Council.
In order to allow time for an orderly transition, the CSA Executive Council would like to complete the selection process one year before the new editor is expected to take up his/her duties. Consequently, the deadline for applications has been set as 15 October 1998. Applications should be sent to:
Carroll B. Johnson, President
Cervantes Society of America
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532
With regard to the duties and qualifications for the position of
Secretary-Treasurer, we provide the following: The S-T
1. is responsible for keeping all bank accounts and financial records of
the CSA; she/he pays all bills incurred by the society (e.g. publication
of the journal; MLA or other conference fees) and collects and records all
dues and subscription payments;
2. handles all correspondence and financial transactions with individual
members, institutions and libraries, and subscription services; she/he must
send the required invoices and other notices to institutions and agents,
as needed;
3. attends all CSA meetings and takes the minutes, to be published each year
in the Newsletter; she/he also presents an annual financial report to the
Executive Council and then publishes it in the Newsletter;
4. files the annual State of Maryland Income Tax return;
5. is in charge of all CSA elections (it has been decided that she/he will
be the Chair of all future nominating committees);
6. prepares all mailing labels (for all members and all libraries) for the
shipping of the journal;
7. composes, publishes, and mails the Newsletter three times a year;
8. fills all orders for back issues;
9. assists the Editor of Cervantes and the officers of the CSA in
all areas relevant to finances, membership and subscription records, statistics
of the society, and general correspondence.
Financial Report 1997
| Balance Brought Forward | $ 17,547.26 | ||
| 1997 Income | |||
| Subscriptions, offprints, back issues, etc. | $19,325.84 | ||
| Total Income | $ 19,325.84 | ||
| 1996 Expenditures | |||
| Honorarium for H. W. Sullivan | $ 500.00 | ||
| Travel award for T. Rosenhagen | 500.00 | ||
| CELJ Dues | 30.00 | ||
| Storage of negatives (for the journal) | 50.00 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XVII, no. 1 | 1,942.43 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XVII, no. 2 | 2,440.51 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XVIII, no. 1 (deposit) | 700.00 | ||
| Printing/Mailing Vol. XVII, no. 1 | 3,857.05 | ||
| Printing/Mailing Vol. XVII, no. 2 | 2,715.12 | ||
| Mail, Telephone, Office Supplies & Expenses | 1,062.54 | ||
| Toronto MLA Cash Bar (Dec. 1997) | 276.00 | ||
| Total Expenses | $ 14,073.65 | ||
| Balance (January 15, 1998) | $22,799.45 | ||
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| Members: 265 | |||
| Libraries: 199 |
AN UNABRIDGED, PEDAGOGICAL EDITION OF DON QUIJOTE
Salvador Fajardo and James A. Parr wish to
announce that their unabridged, pedagogical edition of Don
Quijote—entirely in Spanish, classroom-tested, and vetted—will
be available for fall 1998 from Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina
at Asheville, Asheville, NC 28804. Reviewers of the edition have been
enthusiastic in their praise: 1) “Superb!”; 2) “Right notes
in the right places”; 3) “Nothing like it presently
available.”
Chapters include an average of 60-70 footnotes
that serve to clarify socio-historical, literary, mythological, and biblical
allusions. Lexical clarifications offer one, two, or three equivalents; for
instance, in I, 21, note 60 reads “malenconía:
melancolía”; note 102 reads “aquí entra:
aquí cabe, aquí encaja,” and note 52 offers
“pergenio: traza, disposición, apariencia.” The
pedagogical premise of notes 102 and 52 is that the student should recognize
one of the equivalents, while the other(s) serve to build vocabulary. It
is our assumption that there is no need for English and, moreover, that
code-switching is pedagogically unsound.
Classroom experience, using the photocopied
typescript of Part I, has demonstrated that students respond with enthusiasm
to a critical apparatus in comprehensible Spanish—and learn from it.
Field testing has been done by the editors themselves and also by Mirta
González at Cal State San Bernardino, Anita Stoll at Cleveland State,
and Manuel Delgado at Bucknell.
An advantage of the edition is that it is prepared
by representatives of two linguistic communities, each of whom is
sensitive—from many years of experience—to the problems that both
English and Spanish speakers have with Cervantes's text. Each editor has
gone carefully over the other's work, their combined effort has been scrutinized
by the general editor of the Pegasus Press series of Spanish Classical Texts,
Thomas A. O'Connor of Binghamton University, and subsequently vetted by anonymous
readers contracted by the Press. This extensive and extended process—more
than four years in total—offers reasonable assurance of consistency
and reliability. We largely follow John J. Allen's Cátedra text, with
his kind permission.
An innovation is that each Part contains a
critical commentary—at the end, following the complete text,
where it has a better chance of being understood and appreciated. Each is
preceded by a brief orientation. The preface to Part I, for instance, is
titled “Guía del lector neófito.” There is a succinct
grammatical overview, and a glossary. There is no erudition inappropriate
to the intended audience, and no disparaging of previous editors. Interpretation
is eschewed as a general rule—with the obvious exception of the studies
at the end of each Part (Fajardo, Part I; Parr, Part II).
The price will be modest. For further information,
contact Pegasus Press at the University of North Carolina at Asheville,
Asheville, NC 28804. Phone: (704) 232-5143. Fax: (704) 232-5146. Email:
pegpress@interpath.com.
Cervantes Society of America
c/o William H. Clamurro
Division of Foreign Languages
Emporia State University
Box 4024
Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087
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