Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the fictions of identity
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
- ISBN13 9780252027819
- ISBN10 0252027817
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 142
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Stoffeinband
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Goldenes JahrhundertPassing for Spain: Cervantes and the fictions of identity
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
"Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain. Barbara Fuchs analyzes the trope of passing in Don Quijote and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin." In five engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantes's fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and "Las dos doncellas"; religion in "El amante liberal" and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and "La espanola inglesa." She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation - or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion - as a challenge to the state's attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects.