Iberian Studies: A state of the art and future perspectives

This volume, and this chapter in particular, are based on two complementary convictions: 1) that there is a need to create or rather to consolidate Iberian Studies as a speci c eld of knowledge which encompasses a wide set of literary, artistic and cultural phenomena that cannot be properly understood and explained from a national perspective; and 2) that this eld, despite the fact that it has not yet been named or epistemologically positioned, has seen a signi cant development in the last few years through the emergence of a growing number of scholarly publications.