The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain /

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"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�...

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Autor principal: Lee, Christina H., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spanish literature.
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Social classes.
Social conditions.
Social groups in literature.
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
Ethnicite > Espagne > Histoire.
Identite collective > Espagne > Histoire.
Classes sociales > Espagne > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Classes sociales > Espagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature espagnole > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature espagnole > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicity > Spain > History.
Group identity > Spain > History.
Social classes > Spain > History > 16th century.
Social classes > Spain > History > 17th century.
Spanish literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Spanish literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Spain.
Espagne > Conditions sociales > 17e siecle.
Espagne > Conditions sociales > 16e siecle.
Spain > Social conditions > 17th century.
Spain > Social conditions > 16th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on translations
  • Introduction
  • I. The usurpation of nobility and low-born passers
  • 1. Theorising and practising nobility
  • Defining hidalguía in early modernity ; 'The natural hatred they harbour for hidalgos'
  • 2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts
  • Hidalgo envy in picaresque narratives ; Feminising social climbers: the case of Teresa de Manzanares ; Envisioning the worst : passing downwards in Marcos de Obregón ; The anxiety of sameness conquered in Don Quijote de la Mancha
  • II. Conversos and the threat of sameness
  • 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses
  • Bleeding Conversos ; Cataloguing Conversos
  • 4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts
  • The Converso body identified through disgust in imaginative literature ; Seeking difference as evasion of the self
  • III. Moriscos and the reassurance of difference
  • 5. Imagining the Morisco problem
  • Misreading the Morisco problem ; The reassurance of difference in post-expulsion judicial narratives
  • 6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts
  • From loyal Moor to problematised Morisco in the second part of Guerras civiles de Granada and El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra ; Resemblance as grounds for expulsion in Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615)
  • Conclusion.

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