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Article: The American Foundations of the Hispanic Utopia, 2 vols.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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Stelio Cro. 2 vols. Tallahassee: DeSoto, 1994. 502 pp.
THE RECENT FLOWERING OF iNTEREsT in utopian writing in the Hispanic world is in no small measure due to the scholarship of Stelio Cro. Cro's latest work summarizes, revises, and adds to his important contribution to utopian and Hispanic studies. Unfortunately, Cro's sometimes uncritical use of his sources leads him to make some undocumented and highly questionable assertions.
The first volume, entitled The Literary Utopia, offers a revised edition of the anonymous Sinapia in the original Spanish, as well as an English translation by Anne Cro. In the introduction Sinapia is located within a canon of ...