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Covert Gestures : Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain /

Covert Gestures reveals how the traditional Islamic narratives of the moriscos both shaped and encoded a wide range of covert social activity characterized by a profound and persistent concern with time and temporality. Using a unique blend of literary analysis, linguistic anthropology, and phenomen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barletta, Vincent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor], 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The fabric of time
  • Toward an activity-centered approach to Aljamiado-Morisco narrative
  • Written narrative and the human dimension of time
  • Contexts of rediscovery, contexts of use
  • The Prophet is born, Muslims are made
  • A Morisco philosophy of suffering and action
  • Language ideologies and poetic form
  • Conclusions.