From: Alicia Parodi [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 12:55 PM
To: Lauer, A Robert
Subject: Re: Don Quijote en los campos de detención

También hay publicaciones de testimonios de las lecturas cervantinas de los tupamaros uruguayos. No demasiado interesantes, para mí. La que sabe eso es [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (María de los Ángeles González).Un cariño, Alicia.

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Querido Roberto,

qué noticia más interesante! Muchas gracias, una vez más, por tus mensajes.
Un saludo amigo, desde São Paulo,
Maria Augusta
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From: Lauer, A Robert<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: CERVANTES-<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 1:52 PM
Subject: Don Quijote en los campos de detención

Estimados cervantistas,

Desde hace unos años me informo de lo que pasa en el mundo por medio de dos medios: uno el blog del historiador Juan Cole, de la Universidad de Michigán (mi alma mater) < http://www.juancole.com/ > ; otro la versión electrónica del periódico británico Guardian Unlimited < http://www.guardian.co.uk/ >.  Acabo de leer en el primero que en el Centro de Detención de la Bahía de Guantánamo (Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp), el segundo libro más pedido por los detenidos es Don Quijote. El Prof. Cole hace algunas alusiones históricas al respecto.  Es un detalle curioso sobre un aspecto de recepción literaria respecto a la gran obra cervantina.

Saludos cordiales de

Robert
Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion<http://www.juancole.com/>

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Saturday, September 05, 2009
Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama's Dreams from my Father

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush's 'war on terror' are held. (Many of the prisoners appear to have been sold by the Taliban or swept up indiscriminately in the vicinity of a battlefield). Sheikh told the pan-Arab London daily, al-Hayat [Life], that the facility's library now has 13,500 books<http://www.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/52937>.

What are the three most requested titles by the remaining 229 prisoners<http://www.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/52937>?

1. The Harry Potter novels

2. Cervantes' Don Quixote

3. Barack obama's Dreams from my Father.

No reason was given for these choices, which are followed in popularity by Muslim religious volumes.

Do they think Guantanamo is a little like Hogwarts Academy and that their torturers were Lord Voldemort?

Do they know that Miguel Cervantes fought at the second Battle of Lepanto in 1571<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto_%281571%29> in which the Holy League defeated the Ottoman empire at sea, and that later on his ship was captured by the Algerians and he spent 5 years imprisoned and enslaved in Algiers before being ransomed-- thus reversing an element in their own biographies?

They are said to be fascinated that the new president of the United States has African and Muslim roots.

Although the prisoners receive newspapers, all violent incidents are torn out of them, so they know nothing of the Huthi revolt in Yemen, e.g.

I'm still thinking about the idea of John Yoo as Voldemort.

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For "cont'd" postings, click here.<http://www.juancole.com/2009/09/guantanamo-reading-list-harry-potter.html>

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Prof. A. Robert Lauer
The University of Oklahoma
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