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Introduction.(clothing and costume in the works of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

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From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society ofAmerica
Date: 20040322
Author:Bunn, Elaine

This issue of Cervantes features a happy convergence of meditations on clothing and identity in the works of Miguel de Cervantes. Any moderately engaged reader of Don Quijote can recall characters or episodes associated with some article of clothing that elides the notion of fashion and shows an intentional construction of deconstruction of identities. Consider, for example, the silly but deadly serious discussion concerning the object claimed by some as a helmet and by others a barber's basin. This debate is essentially an epistemological one, embedded in and pointing to the much ...

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