| The Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain Contributor(s): Lee, Christina H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784991201 ISBN-13: 9781784991203 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - History | Social History - History | Modern - 17th Century |
| Dewey: 946.04 |
| LCCN: 2016301242 |
| Series: Studies in Early Modern European History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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' anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for 'pure' Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society - and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history. |