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Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series by Vinodh Venkatesh (review)

which the poetic persona appropriates the voice of male classical heroes who inflict violence against female classical figures in terms of abandonment, widowhood, rape, or divine punishment. Chapter 5, on the one hand, proposes to pull together the thematic threads laid out in previous chapters by applying masculine melancholy to Luis de Góngora’s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledades, while also acknowledging the absence of violence against feminine figures per se; now directed instead against the Portuguese shepherd in the Polifemo and absent entirely in the Soledades. Putting aside for the moment the author’s debatable label attached to the end of Spain’s sixteenth century and beginning of its seventeenth century as exclusively the “Age of Góngora” versus Lope de Vega as Góngora’s greatest rival, this is to say, with Francisco de Quevedo conspicuously absent from the entire monograph, including its notes and bibliography, the more serious question involves the book’s continuous and unpredictable shift in its critical argument between genre theory on epic versus lyric, melancholy as a diagnosed medical condition versus its literary presence, simultaneous with what the reader perceives as the monograph’s rather “fluid” focus on male versus female violence in those particular works whose collection is never fully explained or justified. The author might have gone a long way toward reducing reader confusion by, firstly, elimination and substituting the “Overview of chapters” in the book’s introduction with a stronger concluding statement pulling together the previous five chapters and thereby providing a more substantive and convincing critical argument. Additionally, the author might have considered eliminating the rather wordy introductory material initiating each of the five chapters before explicitly addressing the central thesis of masculinity and lyric. Having said the above, The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora provides valuable critical insights into literary theory, the concept of melancholy, and masculine versus feminine violence as focal points of Ealy Modern Spanish literature. Salvatore Poeta Villanova University