Una mirada en el espejo: la presencia de Cervantes en la <i>Revista de Estudios Hispánicos</i>

Abstract

In this article, we study Cervantes' continuous and significative presence in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos of the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Puerto Rico, since 1928, year of its foundation, until the present, in 2008. The paper's purpose is to demonstrate that, although the initial direction of the journal had a hispanic focus, the published Cervantine studies are characterized for the objectivity and seriousness to criticize and assess, even the most privileged literature of that epoch: Spanish literature and Cervantes as its main exponent. The Cervantine studies during these eighty years evidence two things: an attempt to explain the most profound problems of the Cervantine ambiguity, and, most importantly, the internal vision towards the most profound ambiguities of the Puerto Rican being.