Maria Antonia Garces, a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), is associate professor of Hispanic studies, Cornell University.
[Highly recommended] not because it gives a personal picture of
prison life . . . or because it bolsters a new theory of trauma
criticism . . . [but] because it accomplishes something that is
greatly needed among Hispanists, which is to say that it gets out
of the fiction into the real world in which it was produced.
--BHR
Maria Antonia Garces provides new and fascinating interpretations
of Cervantes' texts . . . [Her] book is grounded on the link
between trauma and creativity . . . The commingling of history,
biography, and trauma studies and, most importantly, the vivid
narrative of an Algiers that Cervantes constantly recalls, make of
this an exciting and fascinating read. This is an important book
that provides new and compelling insights into Cervantes'
Algiers.
--Renaissance Quarterly
The significance of this book is enormous, as it is the first to
chronicle Cervantes's five-year captivity in Algiers as both a
traumatic and creative event [. . .] Garces's book will open up new
avenues not only for rethinking the connections between trauma and
captivity, but also for questioning the complex relations between
Christian Spain and Islam in early modern times.
--Diana de Armas Wilson
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