Epic of Juan Latino - Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth R. Wright is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Klappentext In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Zusammenfassung In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name   Part I: From Slave to Freedman in Granada Chapter 1: Latin Lessons Amid the Remnants of Al-Andalus Chapter 2: Civil War, Shattered Convivencia   Part II: The Epic of Lepanto Chapter 3: A Black Poet and a Habsburg Phoenix Chapter 4: Christians and Muslims on the Battle Lines Chapter 5: The Costs of Modern Warfare Conclusion: Song of the Black Swan Epilogue: Juan Latino in the Harlem Renaissance   Appendix 1: Elegy for Philip II, Annotated Translation Appendix 2: Chronology

Product details

• Authors: E. Michael Gerli, Elizabeth Wright
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2016
• EAN: 9781442637528
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3752-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology