NICOLAS SHUMWAY

Argentina would seem to offer little justification for tribal sentiment. Like most countries, rind particularly New World countries, Argentina is in no sense an extended biological family united by common ancestry. The area’s first inhabitants were warring native tribes who became “Indians” only after Europeans refused to see them as they saw themselves: as distinct...

Although there is little reason to suppose that Reformed Christianity had any significant defenders in the Spain of Calderón, aome critics argue that one of his primary purposes in writing the Autos was to refute Protestant heresy, using the uni- quely Catholic doctrina of tranaubstantiation in the Euchariat as a point of departure.' One of the...

On first glance, Vida y hechas dcl iliistrc caballera don Catrln dc la Ndc$rn& hardly seems morally ambiguous. After all, it is a novel in which priests refute heresy, crime leads to poverty, and the sinful body, even before death, becomes corrupt. I argue in this article, however, that a fundamental ambiguity lies at the core of the novel, an ambiguity reflected in the debate between...