Weaving Tales

<p>This 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 <i>Metamorphoses</i> in which weaving narration uncertain identities and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together weaving identities as well as undoing them and in the process interrogating established and official truths. </p>