A Grammar of the Corpse : Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean /

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"No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies-rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spragins, Elizabeth S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1578
Battle casualties > Miscellanea.
Discourse analysis.
Dead in literature.
Dead.
Alcazarquivir, Battle of, Qaṣr al-Kabīr, Larache, Morocco, 1578.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Battle casualties
African history.
History.
Morocco > Qaṣr al-Kabīr (Larache)
Trivia and miscellanea
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Necroepistemology
  • Presence : Here are the dead
  • Absence : Disappearing the royal dead
  • Vitality : Wounded narrators and the royal dead
  • Assemblage : Recovering diplomatic power with corpses
  • Erasure : Corpse desecration for narrative control.

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