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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
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The voice of BSS & BSVS: International academic journals focused on langs, lits, cultures, histories, incl visual, of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Based at Queen's University, Belfast.
Listen to our editor-in-chief Prof. Isabel Torres on: 'Figuring Forth: Cervantes’ Don Quijote, Poet in Prose'
She explores how poiesis comes alive in the creative madness of Cervantes’ protagonist, & the power of lyric in early modern Spain.

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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos (1958), de Ana María Matute', de Sandra González Basanta

- Power relations in Matute's work, articulated around space, time, race and religion, reflecting policies of exclusion in post-war Spain.

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November 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
'Debility and the Politics of Mourning in Nicolás Rincón Gille’s Tantas almas',
By Marcelo Carosi @ Hamilton College

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November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Out now: 'Visualizing the Prize Network As a Means of Understanding the Marginalization of Mexican Women Authors', Sarah E. L. Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
'"Esto no es un juego": el rol y la incipiente cultura friki en el cine de Álex de la Iglesia. Análisis de Acción mutante (1993) y El día de la bestia (1995)', de Sergio García Maeso

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October 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
October 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
'Cosas vivas de Munir Hachemi y la imposible simbolización de lo real de la explotación capitalista', David Becerra Mayor @uam.es
Una análisis del libro de Hachemi en relación con los conceptos psicoanalíticos de lo real y acto...
September 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
'Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa’s El buen patrón (2021)', by Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social‬ (Uni. Stirling) & Sarah Gilligan (Northumbria Uni.)

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August 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The protagonists of these Central American films rebel against societal norms, thereby crafting powerful counternarratives: 'Disrupting the Heteropatriarchy in Temblores (2019) and Clara Sola (2021)', by Liz Harvey-Kattou @ University of Westminster

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August 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
'The Male Virgin Martyr: A Boy’s Tale' by
Elizabeth Rhodes @bostoncollege.bsky.social
Learn the story of Pelayo, the only male martyr to be tempted with male-male sex in the early modern Spanish Catholic canon

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July 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
'Dátiles de alabastro: belleza, poder y espiritualidad.
El uso del color blanco en espacios femeninos americanos durante la época moderna', Judith Farré Vidal @csic.es @archivocolonial.bsky.social
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April 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our latest special issue:
'Color y poder en la América virreinal durante la época moderna', with contributions from Judith Farré Vidal @archivocolonial.bsky.social ; Emily C Floyd @ucl.ac.uk
Sebastián Ferrero umontreal.ca ; and more!

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April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
'La presencia del pintor enigmático Giuseppe Arcimboldo en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño', by Fan Wu of Guangzhou College of Commerce. Comparing 2666 & Arcimboldo's paintings, Wu hypothesizes 2666 is related to Arcimboldo's kaleidoscopic technique of “composite heads”.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Marcenda Sampaio in José Saramago's 4th novel 'O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis' (1985), stands out because of the narrative’s obsessive insistence on her disability. Find out more in Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez @uwmadison.bsky.social article, out now
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April 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
'Cine ecuatoriano del siglo XXI: transnacionalismo, Buen Vivir y Ley de Cine'.
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2006 saw Ecuador implement a new law to help develop national cinema, María Fernanda Miño Puga of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social looks at the results over a 10-year period.
March 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
'Producing Cinematic Happiness: Domestic Labour in Spanish and Mexican Early Home Movies (1920s–1930s)', by Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro @Brown University. Featuring analysis of home movies by Jean Signoret and Madronita Andreu Klein
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March 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
' "Hermosamente posible": Challenges to the Heteropatriarchal Narrative of "la gran familia puertorriqueña" in the work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro', by Sarah Simpson @University of Nottingham
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March 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Out now: ‘Hermosamente posible’: Challenges to the Heteropatriarchal Narrative of ‘la gran familia puertorriqueña’ in the work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, by Sarah Simpson @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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February 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'A representação do passado da mulher transgênera no documentário Laerte-se'
Carolina Castellanos Gonella @Dickinson College
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January 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM

'En los márgenes: cine activista frente a la expulsión social'
Ana Corbalán @ Univ. of Alabama
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Compara la película de Juan Diego Botto (2022) con Techo y comida, de Juan Miguel del Castillo (2015) #SaskiaSassen
January 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
'Estrategias afectivas globales de Argentina, 1985 en la era del streaming', de Fernando Sánchez López‬ ‪@fersanchezlop.bsky.social‬ The Ohio State University
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January 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Feliz navidad
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful Christmas, from all here at the Bulletin x
December 20, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Re: Post-Humanism in Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
D. J. S. Cross @ubuffalo.bsky.social

‘Post’ must mean not only ‘after’, but also ‘postal’. The determination of the human’s humanness re sending & receiving, following Heidegger

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December 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM
'Construcción nacional e ‘infoentretenimiento’ televisivo: imaginarios culturales y familiaridad en el programa de entrevistas En la tuya o en la mía (TVE)'
Àlvar Peris-Blanes @ Universitat de València

#televisiónEspañola

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December 13, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Well it's nearly lunch time here, must mean time to peruse reviews of the latest books in your field: what's new on #Quijote #HabsburgSpain #SiglodeOro #GuerraCivil #Cuba #Mexico #feriasculturales and more!
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December 11, 2024 at 12:25 PM