LA CHISPA '81: Selected Proceedings (English and Spanish Edition)

The volume contains 36 articles on topics of Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Latin American literature and culture, as well as Italo-Hispanic literary relations. The volume also contains an introduction written by Enrique Iranzo, Consul General of Spain in New Orleans, LA, as well as an article by Spanish novelist Alfonso Grosso, entitled Vieja y nueva 'figuracion' (El Realismo en libertad). The 36 articles were selected for publication from among the 177 papers presented at the Second Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (LA CHISPA), sponsored by Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 26-28, 1981. The articles of the following authors: Samuel G. Armistead (University of Pennsylvania, PA); Rilda L. Baker (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico en San Antonio); Fernando Burgos (Memphis State University, TN); Frank P. Casa (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); R. Merritt Cox (The College of William and Mary, VA); Nancy L. D'Antuono (University of Notre Dame, IN); Carmen M. Del Rio (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge); John Dowling (The University of Georgia, Athens); Patrick H. Dust; Juan Fernandez Jimenez (The Pennsylvania State University, Erie); Michael J. Flys (Arizona State University, Tempe); Ester Gimbernat de Gonzalez (University of Texas, Austin); James Ray Green, Jr. (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Ludmila Kapschutschenko (Vassar College, NY); Robert Kirsner (University of Miami, FL); Kathleen Kish (The University of North Carolina, Greensboro); Lily Litvak (The University of Texas, Austin); Francisco D. Lopez-Herrera (Texas A&I University. Kingsville); Nancy B. Mandlove (Westminister College, PA); Diego Marin (University of Toronto, Canada); Gregorio C. Martin (Wake Forest University, NC); Stephen Miller (Texas A&M University, College Station); Thomas Austin O'Connor (Kansas State University, Manhattan); Maria Paez de Ruiz (Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos); Francisco Romero Perez (Texas Woman's University, Denton); Gustavo Perez Firmat (Duke University, NC); Catherine R. Perricone (Auburn University, AL); Geoffrey Ribbans (Brown University, RI); Elizabeth S. Rogers (Miami University, OH); Dennis Paul Seniff (Michigan State University, East Lansing); Alexandrino Severino (Vanderbilt University, TN); M. Laurentino Suarez (East Tennessee State University, Johnson City); Mercedes Vidal Tibbits (Bethesda, MD); Jack E. Tomlins (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque); Beatriz Varela (University of New Orleans, LA); Mary S. Vasquez (Arizona State University. Tempe).