Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile - Rereading and Refashioning Al-Andalus

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its imbrications with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation.

List of contents

• Introduction: Returning to the Year 1000


• 1: Remembering Disempowerment in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Chronicles


• 2: Local Designs and Global Pretensions: Recalling Andalusi Domination Before and After 1492


• 3: Remembering Borderlands in Border Texts: Cordoba, Castile, and the romancero


• 4: Radical Performances of al-Andalus in the Early comedia


• 5: Performative Memory and Post-Expulsion Islamophobia in the comedia nueva


• 6: Nineteenth-Century Memory Contests


• Coda


• List of References

About the author

Rebecca De Souza is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling. She was previously a Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Rebecca's work has appeared in La corónica, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and postmedieval, amongst other venues. Her research investigates how memories of the premodern era are instrumentalised at particular historical moments across the Hispanophone world, from Iberia to Latin America, the Sephardic diaspora, and the Philippines.

Summary

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its imbrications with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca De Souza, Rebecca (Lecturer in Spanish and Latin A De Souza, Rebecca (Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies De Souza
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2024
• EAN: 9780198918097
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891809-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Spain, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: postcolonial literature