The Marrano SpecterThe Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derridas work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms and problems he addresses take on a distinctive meaning: nationalism and cosmopolitanism; spectrality and hauntology; the relation of subjectivity and