Weaving Tales: Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Lite, Paula-Garcia-Ramirez, Jimen..

Weaving TalesAnglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English\nAuthor(s): Paula Garca-Ramrez, Beatriz Valverde, Anglica Varandas, Jason Whittaker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032447681, 978-1032447681\nSynopsis\nThis collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all .