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Item Open Access 'America Was the Only Place...': American Exceptionalism and the Geographic Politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.(Camden House, 2005) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access "Anaqueles caseros", Entrevista a Unai Elorriaga.(Ciberletras, 2003-06) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access Behind the Canvas: The Role of Paintings in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton and Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Flanders Panel(Rodopi, 2000) García-Caro, PedroIn this paper I analyze two contemporary European novels: Chatterton (1987) by Peter Ackroyd and The Flanders Panel [La Tabla de Flandes, 1991] by Arturo Pérez Reverte. In both texts a mysterious historical painting triggers a quest in the narrated present. An exploration of the temporal strata, the historical palimpsests in or “behind the canvas” in the two novels is at the heart of the detective plots occurring in the fictional present and which somehow relate to a mystery inserted in a recognizable historical past. The double plot of detection: unveiling past and present secrets is the main focus of this paper. Particular emphasis is placed on the relevance of the semiotic functions of the two artistic objects. In Chatterton, the quest for meaning is linked with a search for authenticity. A triple temporal setting results in a complex structure in which certain patterns are echoed through different periods. The painting is utilized here also to reflect upon one of the main themes of the novel: the authenticity of art. In The Flanders Panel, a painted game of chess played in the past is revived, and the characters that surround the painting in the fictional present are forced into being a piece on the chessboard. Both novels are structured around a quest, and the question of whether these texts belong to the genre of detective fiction is addressed at the outset of the paper by tracing a subgenre of detective novels in which the plot spins around an artistic or cultural object: Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Eco’s The Name of the Rose.Item Open Access Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes' La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49(Rodopi, 2005) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access The Death of Carlos Fuentes: An Impossible Silencing Act. In Memoriam (1928-2012).(A Contracorriente, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroObituary for Carlos FuentesItem Open Access Entre familiaridad y exotismo: La vuelta al mundo en la Numancia, un episodio (trans)nacional de Benito Pérez Galdós.(Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, 2009) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access “Entre occidentalismo y orientalismo: la escritura estereográfica de la Revolución mexicana en España. El militarismo mejicano (1920) de Blasco Ibáñez y Tirano Banderas (1926) de Valle-Inclán.”(Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroThis article explores different interpretations of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917) in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s El militarismo mejicano (1920) and Ramón María del Valle Inclán’s Tirano Banderas (1926). Spain’s colonial legacies and neocolonial practices in the Americas were mobilized by Spanish writers to discuss not only the revolutionary processes experienced in Mexico, but also to argue about Spanish internal politics and to define the meaning and import of the emerging concept of Hispanidad. This mode of writing can be best understood through the concept of postcolonial stereography: descriptions and discussions of the former colonial possessions by metropolitan writers are not only postcolonial ethnographies; they also contain a wealth of commentaries on social and political customs and events in the former metropolis. It is consequently a writing in two directions that uses the postcolonial country, in this case Mexico, as a site to discuss side by side two societies that share many political trends and social habits but are also distinctly separate. Blasco Ibáñez’s description of the protofascist military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1929) as a “mejicanización” of Spanish politics, exemplifies this mode of writing as he spuriously detects unwarranted influences of the former colony on the metropolis. Blasco Ibáñez’s earlier series of newspaper articles on the Mexican Revolution evidence an ethnocentric, occidentalist rejection of the social emancipatory promises of the Revolution. In contrast, Valle-Inclán’s fictional approach to the Revolution reveals an orientalized representation of the corrupt Hispanic elite as the source of postcolonial social unrest.Item Open Access Exorcising the Lettered City: The Literature of the Villista Revolution(A Contracorriente, 2007) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access “Hacer bien el oficio: La escritura y los olvidados. Entrevista a Elena Poniatowska.”(Cartaphilus, 2010) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access La nueva izquierda y la agonía del nacionalismo mexicano en La Muerte De Artemio Cruz(Editum: Ediciones de la Universidad, 2008) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access “Las minas del Rey Fernando: plata, oro, y la barbarie española en la retórica independentista hispanoamericana.”(Complutense: Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 2011) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access "Más allá del silencio."(Revista de la Universidad de México, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access Written in the Margins: “Doing the job right”. An interview with Elena Poniatowska.(A Contracorriente, 2010) García-Caro, Pedro