Monsters by Trade Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

"Surwillo's exceptionally rich survey of literature and its social implications features celebrities (Galds, Baroja) and less-known writers, the position of the returning indianos, and reappearance of the slave trafficker in contemporary Catalan literature . . . Essential."-E. H. Friedman, CHOICE "Monsters by Trade is an original, timely, and intelligent interrogation of slavery and slavery's ghost in Spanish literature, from the 19th century through the early 21st century, which emphasizes the fraught relationships between theory and practice, religion and economics, and coloniality and modernity."-Ruth Hill, Vanderbilt University "In Monsters by Trade Lisa Surwillo expertly maps modern Spain's culture of colonialism, while urging us to look at familiar authors from the literary canon in a new light. Both are signal achievements."-Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University "Monsters by Trade analyzes how the continuation of the slave trade and slavery in Cuba shaped metropolitan imaginings of coloniality, nation, and empire....[T]his excellent work illuminates the cultural aspects usually invisible in social, economic, and political examinations of the continuance of the traffic."-Alex Borucki, Latin American Research Review