The Moor and the Novel: Narrating Absence in Early Modern Spain

ISBN-13: 9781137299925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 185 str.

Mary B Quinn

Opis

The Moor and the Novel engages music, literature, and history from the Early Modern period to reveal fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel. Through fresh interpretations of ballads, histories, and novellas, this book argues that the expulsion of Muslims from Spain produced a cultural vacuum, one that demanded a response. Juxtaposing close readings of well-known and obscure texts, this book illuminates the literary consequences of ethnic cleansing. Expulsion not only transformed the population of Iberia, it also altered early modern notions of the self and of authorship while creating a space for new kinds of narrative strategies. The absent Muslim created a physical, historic, and artistic aperture that was addressed in new literary forms, including Cervantes's Don Quijote. Nuanced and insightful, The Moor and the Novel provides an essential genealogy for understanding early modern narrative.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Muslim Absence as Literary Aperture PART II: SONGS OF THE PAST 2. Epic Nostalgia: The Ballads of the Cancionero Musical de Palacio and the Vihuela Songbook 3. The Novel Moor: El Abencerraje and Ginés Pérez de Hita's Guerras Civiles de Granada: Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y los Abencerrajes PART III: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT 4. Marking the Present: Literary Innovation in Ginés Pérez de Hita's La guerra de los moriscos 5. Pater and Patria: Cervantes's Muslim Fathers Bibliography Index

O autorze

Mary B. Quinn is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico, USA.