Chapter Twelve A Bone of Contention: The Contested Exhumation of Miguel de Cervantes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Fictional Lives of Miguel de Cervantes 1
6. Critical Perspectives
7. Chapter One The First Two Centuries of Cervantes in Fiction 21
8. Chapter Two Don Quixote Lurks Behind Miguel de Cervantes: The Portrait Tradition from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 35
9. Cervantes in Fiction
10. Chapter Three “An adventure of the strangest kind”: Dialogue across the Centuries in Paul Scheerbart’s Fantasy Novella Cervantes 59
11. Chapter Four “La dolorosa gloria”: Cervantes’s Character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s Bomarzo 71
12. Chapter Five “Parecía reír el ave”: The Fictive Miguel de Cervantes’s Use of Constructive Anthropomorphism in “Las gallinas de Cervantes” by Ramón J. Sender 83
13. Chapter Six Fictionalizing Historical Cervantes: Stephen Marlowe’s The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes 97
14. Chapter Seven Miguel de Cervantes, Biofictional Superhero 110
15. Chapter Eight A Certain Cervantes: Reimagining an American Cervantes in the French Graphic Novel 122
16. Chapter Nine Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Channelling the Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation through Miguel de Cervantes 135
17. Cervantes on Stage and on Screen
18. Chapter Ten Cervantes through the Women in His Family: Pingüinas by Fernando Arrabal and Las Cervantas by Inma Chacón and José Ramón Fernández 153
19. Chapter Eleven Time-Travel Cervantes: Sci-Fi, Rivalry, and Theory of Mind in El ministerio del tiempo and Cervantes contra Lope 168
20. Chapter Twelve A Bone of Contention: The Contested Exhumation of Miguel de Cervantes 181
21. Chapter Thirteen Towards the Creation of a Myth of a Hero: Cervantes, War, and Captivity 197
22. Chapter Fourteen Second(ary) Acts: Cervantes on the Page 209
23. Conclusion Lo que quedó en el tintero 226
24. Appendix 1 A Cervantes Chronology 235
25. Appendix 2 Works by Cervantes 241
26. Appendix 3 Cervantes on Stage 243
27. Appendix 4 Cervantes in the Novel (more than 15,000 words) 247
28. Appendix 5 Cervantes in Short Fiction (fewer than 15,000 words) 253
29. Appendix 6 Cervantes on Screen 261
30. Contributors 263
31. Index 269
32. Toronto Iberic 289