Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I Physical Crossroads of Time & Space/Tradition & Modernity 1 Spain's Wine Museums: Where Age-Old Oenological Tradition Intersects with Contemporary Design and Modern Technology Kimberly A. Habegger 2 20th Century Pyramid: Vestiges of Dictatorship in a Democracy: Spain's Valley of the Fallen Kimberly A. Habegger 3 Home, Sweet and Not-So-Sweet, Home: The Museum of Fine Art/Houston (MFAH) & Latin American Art Debra D. Andrist 4 Architecture and the Constant Hispanic Postmodern Project Elizabeth White Coscio Part II Social, Artistic, Religious & Political Crossroads 5 Representation of the Absent Object: Pictorial Mysticism in El Greco and Pablo Picasso Enrique Mallén 6 Transmogrifying Traditions: el guadalupanismo. The History of Sociedades Guadalupanas & Other Hispanic Organizations in Houston, Texas Debra D. Andrist 7 Mestizaje as Lateral Universality: Moving In-Between Elitist Cosmopolitanism and Populist Tribalism John Francis Burke Part III Crossroads of Social & Literary Time & Space, Not to Mention Tradition & Modernity, in Spain 8 Pablo Picasso's Semantically-Complex Visual Poetry Through Modern Technology Enrique Mallén & Luis Meneses 9 Ramón J. Sender's Sublime Visions of Freedom in Relatos fronterizos (1970) Montse Feu 10 Pérez Reverte at the Early 21st Century Crossroads of Spanish History and Literature Stephen Miller Part IV Crossroads of Social, Gender, Artistic, Literary & Cinematic Time & Space, Not to Mention Tradition & Modernity, in Latin/Latino(x) America 11 Time, Space & Creativity RoseMary Salum 12 Why Can't a Feminist be Sexy? Sandra Cisneros' My Wicked, Wicked Ways Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway 13 Confrontations on All Fronts: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Chavarro 14 The Many Homes: A Reading of Marina Perezagua's The Story of H Eduardo Cerdán 15 China and Chinago: Globalization of the Kung Fu Genre and the Interpretation of Hero and History Haiqing Sun Conclusions The Editor and Contributors Index.