Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain

Informationen zum Autor Christina H. Lee is Tenured Research Scholar in the department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University Klappentext This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards' anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for 'pure' Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society - and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness.This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers1. Theorising and practicing nobility2. The forgery of nobility in literary textsPart II: Conversos and the threat of sameness3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary textsPart III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference5. Imagining the Morisco problem6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary textsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christina H Lee, Christina H. Lee, Christina H. (Associate Professor of Spanish Lee, Christina H. (Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese) Lee, Lee Christina H.
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781526134349
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3434-9
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Studies in Early Modern European History; Studies in Early Modern European History; Studies in Early Modern Europe
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; European History, Spain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Europe / Spain