passing in "Don Quijote" and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin. In five lucid and engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantes' fiction: gender and race in "Don Quijote" and "Las dos doncellas"; religion in "El amante liberal" and "La gran sultana"; and, national identity in the "Persiles" and "La espaola inglesa". She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation - or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion - as challenges to the state's attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects. Fuchs demonstrates the larger implications of this challenge by bringing a wide range of literary and political texts to bear on Cervantes' representations. Impeccably researched, "Passing for Spain" examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain undermined a national identity based on exclusion and difference.

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