Title: Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Description: This book instructs readers who want to feel their ways through disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions are asked and explored. A cavalcade of writers has written about empire, femininity, Spain, pain, wounds, war and love. Symptoms of imperial panic abound in their pages, very frequently manifesting directly or indirectly in allusions to Spain and things Spanish.
Subjects: Hispanic american literature (spanish), history and criticism, Feminism and literature, In literature, Psychology and literature, Women in literature, Imperialism in literature, Literature, Literatur, Psychologie, Imperialismus, Frauenliteratur, Feminist literary criticism